Virginia Woolf — "I am not an optimist. I am not a pessimist. I am a realist."

"I am a solitary creature."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machines — always buzzing, humming, soaring, diving, and then buried in a bog. And the only way in which I can manage it and make it work is by turning …"

"The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."