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Virginia Woolf: Quotes

  • Beauty
    The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
  • Food and Eating
    One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
  • Men and Women
    Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
  • The Bible
    I read the book of Job last night—I don't think God comes well out of it.Virginia Woolf
  • Women
    What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. . . . I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.Virginia Woolf: Professions for Women
  • Writing and Writers
    Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
  • Writing and Writers
    I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own