The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. -Virginia Woolf History
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 Women
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. -Virginia Woolf Men
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. -Virginia Woolf Truth
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. -Virginia Woolf Business
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. -Virginia Woolf Happiness
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf Truth
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. -Virginia Woolf Age
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. -Virginia Woolf Amazing
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. -Virginia Woolf Money
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. -Virginia Woolf Women
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. -Virginia Woolf Romantic
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. -Virginia Woolf Courage
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. -Virginia Woolf Independence
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. -Virginia Woolf Nature
