Virginia Woolf Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.”

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”

“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”

“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”