Virginia Woolf Quotes
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'
Born in Kensington, London
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