1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

For in marriage a little license, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her and she him. (...) But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into. And it was intolerable (...).

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

She had now to get used to the fact that some one shared her loneliness. The bewilderment was half shame and half the prelude to profound rejoicing.

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

All the most individual and humane of his friends were bachelors and spinsters; indeed he was surprised to find that the women he most admired and knew best were unmarried women. Marriage seemed to be worse for them than it was for men.