Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places; — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all their silliness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that our belief in man’s intellect is the greatest fallacy of them all?” “What?” I exclaimed. “Ask any journalist,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
![“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/virginia-woolf-49_female-friendship_and-i-tried-to-remember-any-case-in-the_1532397.jpg)
