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












A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
More Virginia Woolf quotes
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
"That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlar...
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
"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...
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean ...
"Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware t...
"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
"Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigan...