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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Virginia Woolf
    “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.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    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
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    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
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
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    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
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    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
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: sadness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: anonymous, poetry, woman
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
    1840 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: love, poetry, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Sappho
    “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
    ― Sappho
    tags: from-wonder-by-r-j-palacio
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    Sappho
    “You came and I was longing for you.
    You cooled a heart that burned with desire.”
    ― Sappho
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    Sappho
    “I know not what to do, my mind is divided”
    ― sappho
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: empowerment, fiction, gender, on-fiction, problems, women, women-writers
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    Virginia Woolf
    “It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
    tags: poem, poems, poetry
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    Virginia Woolf
    “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.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing
    1322 likes



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