For Students
Virginia Woolf: Quotes
- Beauty
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.: A Room of One's Own
- Food and Eating
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.: A Room of One's Own
- Men and Women
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.: A Room of One's Own
- The Bible
I read the book of Job last night—I don't think God comes well out of it.
- Women
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. . . . I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.: Professions for Women
- Writing and Writers
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.: A Room of One's Own
- Writing and Writers
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.: A Room of One's Own