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5579f36 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
ea4f9a6 Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. women writing Virginia Woolf
99cd48a Books are the mirrors of the soul. metaphor soul Virginia Woolf
90195aa One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. love Virginia Woolf
d87db97 As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. stereotypes men feminism self-determination women empowerment intelligence dignity social-norms misogyny hypocrisy double-standards gender thought Virginia Woolf
9ac6891 No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. true reassuring Virginia Woolf
59b4656 There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. star Virginia Woolf
7aa08de Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. Virginia Woolf
d85c175 Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. woman poetry Virginia Woolf
ba99c2a Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. poetry women Virginia Woolf
6c767ff A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. men equality feminism poetry women writing empowerment dignity judgment misogyny hypocrisy double-standards respect gender Virginia Woolf
672c8e3 Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. Virginia Woolf
cff0ccf A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. money women writing virgin on-writing Virginia Woolf
edb2164 How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. solitude silence Virginia Woolf
3f57e51 All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. Virginia Woolf
4c9c621 What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. Virginia Woolf
7ecaca1 The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. men feminism women empowerment misogyny gender Virginia Woolf
d48717c I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. Virginia Woolf
70107aa Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. winter sad night Virginia Woolf
766c0cc For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the st.. solitude Virginia Woolf
47a4658 She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day. Virginia Woolf
6c60267 Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. emptyness nothingness empty Virginia Woolf
3c3801e I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded." -- independence self-worth Virginia Woolf
58db525 He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. Virginia Woolf
cc9e5d0 So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. writing Virginia Woolf
a91345b For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. Virginia Woolf
7903d09 I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. Virginia Woolf
9ebd496 What does the brain matter compared with the heart? love Virginia Woolf
c275be8 Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. reading writing Virginia Woolf
3bdc211 Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. wild-horse Virginia Woolf
89bf9b2 It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. meaning Virginia Woolf
b34e92f I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. Virginia Woolf
6a990dc When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness--I am nothing. words Virginia Woolf
ec73403 Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence Virginia Woolf
111fa2e When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would ve.. feminism history women writing witches empowerment dignity social-norms suppression misogyny women-writers gender persecution Virginia Woolf
eedcf68 The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. beauty inspirational Virginia Woolf
251c1e7 Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? Virginia Woolf
631c7ab By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream feminism inspirational Virginia Woolf
eb8cfe2 Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. stereotypes feminism women morality empowerment womanhood dignity social-norms misogyny hypocrisy double-standards inequality protectiveness gender Virginia Woolf
03d6940 He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. Virginia Woolf
6fc00e3 She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. Virginia Woolf
fdc1b69 And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. life Virginia Woolf
402019f Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art Virginia Woolf
84ee0b4 I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. life disatisfaction Virginia Woolf
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