"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to……" — Virginia Woolf

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."

— Virginia Woolf

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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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More Ceased Quotes

This quote is filed under Ceased Quotes, one of 331 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have… — Bernard Baruch
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try… — Conrad Black
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use… — John Cleese
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of… — Julian Huxley
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I… — Paulo Coelho
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But… — F. H. Bradley
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never… — Edith Hamilton
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist. — Adolf Hitler
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing… — Hermann Hesse
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To… — Mark Twain

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