Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf on truth
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf on truth
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf on truth
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf on truth
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf on truth
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Virginia Woolf on war
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. Virginia Woolf on war
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf on war
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf on war
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf on women
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf on women
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? Virginia Woolf on women
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf on women
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf on women
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf on women
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf on work
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf on beauty