"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe……" — Virginia Woolf
"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."
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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 Ageing Quotes
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed…
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
— George H. W. Bush
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In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a…
— Julia Gillard
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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you…
— Dalai Lama
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As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital…
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Women are not forgiven for ageing
— Jane Fonda
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What…
— Thandie Newton
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I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out…
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?
— Paul McCartney
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
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