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Virginia Woolf has 653 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their…
— Florence Nightingale
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Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in…
— Unknown Author
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection…
— Nellie Melba
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole…
— Bertrand Russell
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave…
— Henry James
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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…
— Virginia Woolf
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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