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Virginia Woolf Quotes
«There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.»
«These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.»
«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.''»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bargain, branches, Branches of, bring out, Considering, explorer, explorers, fortified, fortifies, fortify, immense, inadequate, into the bargain, likeness, measuring, pities, professor, rods, rush, sexes, Sex education, similarities, similarity, skies, The Bargain, variety, vastness
«A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.»
«Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
female, inter, interred, likeness, likenesses, mix, sexes, underneath, vacillation
«When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anon, devils, ducked, herbs, novelist, poems, remarkable, signing, suppressed, track, venture
«Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anonymity, detestable, irresistible, publicity, signpost, signposts, tombstone, veiled
«Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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asylums, comfortably, England, euphemistically, homes, lunatic, pad, padded, pads, stately
«If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat