Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““I knew my cases and my genders; I could know everything in the world if I wished.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I thought we’d known everything there was to know about each other but obviously that wasn’t the case.” — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“The world can, and will, tell you exactly who you are; but only you can figure it out.” — Joe Charogoff Copy Share Image
“I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.” — Tal McThenia Copy Share Image
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“Women always know everything; they like to hoard the information until it can be used to maximum effect.” — Megan Derr Copy Share Image
“It is astonishing, in the end, how difficult it is to know the things you know. What I mean is that all I had… — Aoibheann Sweeney Copy Share Image
“It’s absolutely necessary to know who you are, as the basis for knowing anything else.” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Nothing is known; for if you do not know yourself, Life then remains only you, and just this and that.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image