“Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him; with the clock striking the hour, one, two, three, she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so beautiful, so exciting, this love, that I tremble on the verge of it, and offer, quite out of my… — 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
