1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Theories then are dangerous things.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

Women alone stir my imagination ...