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Virginia Woolf quotes about women

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

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But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense, half of awe, half of amusement, and the extravagant, inconsiderate, uncivilized male, outraged somehow and gone bellowing to his lair with a roar which still sometimes reverberates in the most polished of drawing rooms. Virginia Woolf
I observed with disillusioned clarity the despicable nonentity of the street; its porches; its window curtains; the drab clothes, the cupidity and complacency of shopping women; and old men taking the air in comforters; the caution of people crossing; the universal determination to go on living, when really, fools and gulls that you are, I said, any slate may fly from a roof, any car may swerve, for there is neither rhyme nor reason when a drunk man staggers about with a club in his hand -... Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
For we think back through our mothers if we are women. Virginia Woolf
Every single thing [...] he found thus cumbered with other matter like the lump of grass which, after a year at the bottom of the sea, is grown about with bones and dragon-flies, and coins and the tresses of drowned women. Virginia Woolf
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. Virginia Woolf
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? Virginia Woolf
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. Virginia Woolf
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
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
Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. 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
Virginia Woolf quote: "Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all..."
Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all their silliness. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "The truth is, I often like women. I like their..."
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Women's rights, that antediluvian topic."
Women's rights, that antediluvian topic. Virginia Woolf

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