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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #5
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
    Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
    Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “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”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #19
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

  • #21
    Virginia Woolf
    “To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #22
    Virginia Woolf
    “Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. ”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #24
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #25
    Virginia Woolf
    “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
    Virginia Woolf , The Waves

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #27
    Virginia Woolf
    “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “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, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando



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