I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”, “As a woman I have no country. The house where she lived with her husband was destroyed during the Blitzkrieg and Virginia was terrified about what might happen to her Jewish husband if the germans would find him. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. Woolf’s feminist viewpoint and perspective can also be seen in her quotes that portray her innate idealism and thought. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. I want another. Beauty was not everything. Virginia Woolf Quotes Quotes tagged as "virginia-woolf" Showing 1-30 of 135 “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Different people draw different words from me. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself. Famous As: Novelist. Flavia Medrut is a freelance writer, researcher and part-time psychologist. He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. and changing leaves. Bury your fangs in my flesh. V.”, “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. Her most famous works include the novels ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘Orlando’, each of which were highly successful and established her reputation as a contemporary writer. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. Peter would think her sentimental. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. No need to hurry. No need to be anybody but oneself.”, “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”, “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”, “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”, “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.”, “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”, “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”, “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”, “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.”, “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”, “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.”, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”, “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”, “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”, “Writing is like sex.
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