"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?
~ Virginia Woolf ~












What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turn...
Show More
More Virginia Woolf quotes
"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...
"I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, ...
"Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman a...
"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across count...
"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our ...
"Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you ...
"...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
"It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Eithe...
"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...
"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.