“But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“(the grass of the park flushed and faded, lighting up the poor mothers of Westminster and their crawling babies, as if a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Long past sunset an old blind woman sat on a camp-stool with her back to the stone wall of the Union of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For now that Aphra Behn had done it, girls could go to their parents and say, You need not give me an… — 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
“We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the lake?' she said, in an abrupt voice, under the pressure of an emotion which caught her heart, made… — 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
![“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/586/virginia-woolf-49_parenting_i-ask-now-standing-with-my-scissors-amon_985509.jpg)
