110 quotes
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.
To the Lighthouse (1927)
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
Granite and Rainbow (1958)
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
Jacob's Room (1922)
Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power of some inner compulsion. The trees wave, the clouds pass. The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared.
The Waves (1931)
Society is the most powerful conception in the world and society has no existence whatsoever.
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.
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.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell.
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
A Room of One's Own (1929)