48 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about Women
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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The truth is that I need the stimulus of other people. Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely, imagining. He would not integrate, as I do. He would not have this devastating sense of grey ashes in a burnt-out grate.
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How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed-up, become part of another.
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Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched the nerves very taut
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man
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