Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Women Quotes

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...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

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

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...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

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.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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...

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...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

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,...

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

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

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...