“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
FriendshipAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Peace“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.”
Best“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
Happiness“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
Friendship“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
Beauty“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
Freedom“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
Nature“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
History“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?”
Education“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.”
Time“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Power“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
God“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Humor“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
Age“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Power“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Money