Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The looking-glass vision is of suprme importance because it charges the vitality; it stimulates the nervous system. Take it away and man… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they… — 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
“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
![“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/i/755/virginia-woolf-49_abuse_if-woman-had-no-existence-save-in-the-fi_1851263.jpg)