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Figure Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity…
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
More Figure Quotes
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- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure. — Michele Bachmann
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. — Erykah Badu
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for… — Antonio Banderas
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry