Maria

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.”
― George Eliot , Felix Holt, The Radical

“A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life".”
― George Eliot, The Lifted Veil

“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.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves