Virginia Woolf Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Virginia Woolf quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased author born on Jan 25, 1882). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 86 we have for her.

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

“These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”