Virginia Woolf

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#gender #gender-identity #marriage

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #age

She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death #life #silence #thought #death

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#habit #nature

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #inspirational

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poet #virginia-woolf #home

Oh, to awake from dreaming! ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #selflessness #woman #inspirational

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#travel #death