Virginia Woolf

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Pleasure has no room for the past; but memory is often a source of pain.

It is in the nature of a woman to be a little mad.

The human brain is a funny thing: it will see what it wants to see and ignore what it does not.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction.

The only way to keep one's health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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.

The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors.

I am not a feminist, but I am a woman. And I want to be heard.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their minds, their bodies, their conversation, their wit, their beauty, their ideas, their clothes, their courage, their independence, their gaiety, their seriousness, their passionate intensity, their loyalty, their friendship, their honesty, their kindness, their generosity, their wisdom, their folly, their weakness, their strength, their love. I like women. I like women better than I like men.

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

Great minds are androgynous.

The most important thing is not to think about art, but to think about life.

I am in the mood to be a little mad.

All women are prostitutes, or ought to be.

The older one grows, the more one likes the taste of life.

It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.

I am rooted, but I flow.

The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.

It is only by putting our heads together that we can get rid of the terrible fear of loneliness.