"When, however, one reads of a witch being……" — Virginia Woolf
"When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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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 Anon Quotes
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
— John Aubrey
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
— Heinrich Himmler
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments…
— William James
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and…
— John Milton
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's…
— John Milton
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
— William Wordsworth
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
— John Aubrey
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
— Paula Poundstone
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what…
— Henry David Thoreau
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