And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am sitting up in bed: I am very very charming; and Vita is a dear old rough coated sheep dog: or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But this question of love... this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps a kinship among qualities; one draws another along with it; and the biographer should here call attention to the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It won't seem to you nonsense in ten years' time,' said Mrs. Hilbery. 'Believe me, Katharine, you'll look back on this these… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — 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
