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Women 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…
- The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
- 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…
- 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.
- Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
- 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…
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an…
- 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…
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
- 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.
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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