“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I think she is one of the most mentally exciting people I know. She hates the wishy-washiness of Bloomsbury young men. We… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are writing the life of a woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...]… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse… — 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
“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain,… — 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
“She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
