British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
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