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Virginia Woolf
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.”
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drink...
“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my fle...
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Alm...
