The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — 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
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
![“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England ], she was locked up, beaten…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/755/virginia-woolf-49_abuse_if-woman-had-no-existence-save-in-the-fi_1851263.jpg)
