As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

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...

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.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...