Virginia Woolf Quotes About Woman

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.[Very often misquoted as:]For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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

What is nobler, than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

Well, I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Love, the poet has said, is woman’s whole existence.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.[Very often misquoted as:] For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.