Indeed, 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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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...

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?

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

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...

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...

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.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

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.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

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.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

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

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

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the...

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the...

That game was so famous they never used me.

That game was so famous they never used me.

For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while...

For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while...