A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.Virginia Woolf
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.Virginia Woolf
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.Virginia Woolf
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.Virginia Woolf
Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.Virginia Woolf
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.Virginia Woolf
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.Virginia Woolf
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.Virginia Woolf
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be woman-manly or man-womanlyVirginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.Virginia Woolf
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.Virginia Woolf