As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
– Virginia Woolf
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- Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women – Virginia Woolf
- Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet. – Virginia Woolf
- We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. – Virginia Woolf
- Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? – Virginia Woolf
- Well, we must wait for the future to show. – Virginia Woolf
- Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white? – Virginia Woolf
- There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. – Virginia Woolf
- I use my friends rather as giglamps : There’s another field I see: by your light. Over there’s a hill. I widen my landscape. – Virginia Woolf
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- When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. – Virginia Woolf
- I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. – Virginia Woolf
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- Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences. – Virginia Woolf
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- Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. – Virginia Woolf
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- Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love? – Virginia Woolf
- When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook-”a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. – Virginia Woolf
- so that it may grow fatter and – Virginia Woolf
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. – Virginia Woolf