"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts…" — Virginia Woolf
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
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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 Cages Quotes
This quote is filed under Cages Quotes,
one of 367 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
— Nicolas Cage
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
— Will Arnett
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
— Mike Tyson
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