Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
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Author Details:
Type:
Author Quotes
Category:
British Author Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 25, 1882
Date of Death:
March 28, 1941
Nationality:
British
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Select Virginia Woolf Quotations:
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia Woolf
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
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Quote Keywords:

Emancipation,
History,
Interesting,
Itself,
Men,
More,
Opposition,
Perhaps,
Story,
Than,
Women
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Dictionary Links:

Emancipation,
History,
Interesting,
Itself,
Men,
More,
Opposition,
Perhaps,
Story,
Than,
Women
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All Virginia Woolf Quotations:
A good essay must have this...
A masterpiece is something said once...
A woman must have money and...
Almost any biographer, if he respects...
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
As a woman I have no...
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of...
Each has his past shut in...
Every secret of a writer's soul...
Fiction is like a spider's web...
For most of history, Anonymous was...
For what Harley Street specialist has...
Great bodies of people are never...
Humor is the first of the...
I can only note that the...
I read the book of Job...
I thought how unpleasant it is...
I want the concentration and the...
I was in a queer mood...
I would venture to guess that...
If one could be friendly with...
If we help an educated man's...
If you do not tell the...
If you insist upon fighting to...
Indeed, I would venture to guess...
It is curious how instinctively one...
It is far harder to kill...
It is far more difficult to...
It is fatal to be a...
It is in our idleness, in...
It is the nature of the...
It seems as if an age...
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that...
Language is wine upon the lips.
Let a man get up and...
Life is not a series of...
Literature is strewn with the wreckage...
Masterpieces are not single and solitary...
Mental fight means thinking against the...
My own brain is to me...
Nothing has really happened until it...
Nothing induces me to read a...
Odd how the creative power at...
On the outskirts of every agony...
Once conform, once do what other...
One cannot think well, love well...
One has to secrete a jelly...
One likes people much better when...
One of the signs of passing...
Really I don't like human nature...
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone...
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the...
Some people go to priests; others...
Someone has to die in order...
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent...
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
The beautiful seems right by force...
The beauty of the world, which...
The connection between dress and war...
The eyes of others our prisons...
The history of men's opposition to...
The older one grows, the more...
The poet gives us his essence...
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious...
The truth is, I often like...
There can be no two opinions...
There is much to support the...
These are the soul's changes. I...
This is an important book, the...
This is not writing at all...
This soul, or life within us...
Thought and theory must precede all...
To depend upon a profession is...
To enjoy freedom we have to...
We are nauseated by the sight...
We can best help you to...
When the shriveled skin of the...
Where the Mind is biggest, the...
Who shall measure the hat and...
Why are women... so much more...
Women have served all these centuries...
Yet it is in our idleness...
Yet, it is true, poetry is...
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
You send a boy to school...
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