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Men Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
- The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
- I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and…
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
- To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to…
- It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
- 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…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned…
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains…
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write…
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -…
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind…
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