The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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...

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 -...

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.

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...

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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.

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...

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.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

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...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

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

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

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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...

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...