Quotes from Virginia Woolf

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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

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

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Just in case you ever foolishly forget: I'm never not thinking of you.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together