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Virginia Woolf quotes about men

British Author, Composer, Writer January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

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Virginia Woolf quote: "Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they..."
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. Virginia Woolf
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out (in his History of England), she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all,..."
This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are..."
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf
Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in the world like any modern upstart, and that they had made it by acquiring houses and offices, garters and ribbands, as any other upstart does, while poets, perhaps, and men of great mind and breeding had preferred the quietude of the country, for which choice they paid the penalty by extreme poverty, and now hawked broadsheets in the Strand, or herded sheep in the fields, filled... Virginia Woolf
Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men. Virginia Woolf
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge Virginia Woolf
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns. Virginia Woolf
They do not understand that that I have to effect different transitions; have to cover the entrances and exits of several different men who alternately act their parts as Bernard. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded..."
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I prefer men to cauliflowers"
I prefer men to cauliflowers Virginia Woolf

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