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Woman 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…
- 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.
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
- The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the…
- It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
- A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
- 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…
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
- 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…
- A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by…
- I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
- So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
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- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall