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?

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

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...

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.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

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...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

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...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

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

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

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

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

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...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

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...

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....