“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: women
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It is the nature of the artist
“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: nature
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The truth is, I often like women.
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: women
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This is an important book, the critic
“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: war
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Women have served all these centuries as
“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: power
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Why are women… so much more interesting
“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: men
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If one could be friendly with women,
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: women
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Nothing induces me to read a novel
“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: money
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Some people go to priests; others to
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: poetry
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: amazing
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious;
“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: poetry
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