Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. Virginia Woolf
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. Virginia Woolf
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
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. Virginia Woolf
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. 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. 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. 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? 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. Virginia Woolf
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. Virginia Woolf
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf