3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
