Virginia Woolf
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps
than the story of that emancipation itself.
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As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As
a woman, my country is the world.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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Occupation is essential.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so
pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more
steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and
the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
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[W]omen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of
time.
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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.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was
often a woman.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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