I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl...

I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a...