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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“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.”
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
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