Virginia Woolf

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy #inequality

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#obsession

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

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death

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

— Virginia Woolf

#her #money #must #own #room

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #life

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#wild-horse #nature

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

— Virginia Woolf

#history #interesting #itself #men #more

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#age