Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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

" One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. " # Food and Eating # Love # Sleep

" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. " # Friends and Friendship # Death and Dying # Apathy

" Arrange Whatever pieces come your way. " # Opportunity

" It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself superior. " # Gender # Freedom # Power

" The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. " # Law and Lawyers # Laughter # Beauty

" Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. " # Idleness # Dreams # Truth

" One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. " # Adversity # Misfortunes # Marriage