"It is fatal to be a man or……" — Virginia Woolf
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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Virginia Woolf
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Fatal Quotes
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
— Allan Bloom
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
— Samuel Butler
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
— Cher
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims…
— Agatha Christie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
— George F. Kennan
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free…
— Thornton Wilder
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