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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)
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)
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)
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)
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth?
A Room of One's Own (1929)
When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
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 that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
A Room of One's Own (1929)
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.
A Room of One's Own (1929)