Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The world is a disc, and we are on it, like a ship on the sea.

She had the oddest sense of being herself, of being a woman, but of being a woman in a world that was not hers.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.

She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably ancient.

I see you, I see you, you brave, you wonderful, you beautiful, you strong, you magnificent creature.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

So much depends upon the way we look at things.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a quiver, a flutter.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

The public is a monster of which one can make neither head nor tail.

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The education of the poor is a matter of public concern.