Virginia Woolf Famous Quotes



Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.


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