A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
– Virginia Woolf
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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 whole world. – Virginia Woolf
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
- Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. – Douglas Adams
- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. – Virginia Woolf
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. – Virginia Woolf
- So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball – Virginia Woolf
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf
- I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction. – Virginia Woolf
- Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. – Virginia Woolf
- Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-”our friends are not able to finish their stories. – Virginia Woolf
- The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it. – Virginia Woolf
- With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes — one of the tragedies of married life. – 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
- If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. – Virginia Woolf
- How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff? – Virginia Woolf
- When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. – Virginia Woolf
- Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. – Virginia Woolf
- Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. – Virginia Woolf
- He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life. – Virginia Woolf
- It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day. – Virginia Woolf
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother. – Debasish Mridha
- Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete. – Aysha Taryam
- A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater – Srividya Srinivasan
- A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story – Enrique de Hriz
- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
- I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man – Virginia Woolf
- We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. – 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
- Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens. – Virginia Woolf
- The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. – Virginia Woolf
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. – Virginia Woolf