Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size
women hate heart
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
women army blessing
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
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Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
art women men
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
running women mean
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
women occupation may
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
powerful women history
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
travel women speech
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
life time women
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.