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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
By Virginia Woolf
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
By Virginia Woolf
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
By Virginia Woolf
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think
By Virginia Woolf
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
By Virginia Woolf
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
By Virginia Woolf
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
By Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
By Virginia Woolf
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
By Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
By 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.
By Virginia Woolf
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
By Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
By Virginia Woolf
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
By 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.
By Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
By Virginia Woolf
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
By Virginia Woolf
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
By Virginia Woolf
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
By Virginia Woolf