“For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Some Committee?” she asked, as he opened the door. “Armenians,” he said; or perhaps it was “Albanians.” And there is a dignity… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“His wife was crying, and he felt nothing; only each time she sobbed in this profound, this silent, this hopeless way, he… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“when suddenly, as if a shelf were shot forth and she stood on it, she said how she was his wife, married… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — 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
“For there's nothing in the world so bad for some women as marriage, he thought; and politics...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble… — 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
