Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
Virginia WoolfAll this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.
Virginia WoolfTags: gender misogyny sexism misandry
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
Virginia WoolfTo put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
Virginia WoolfEvery secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfThe older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia WoolfAnything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
There was a star riding through clouds one night,
Virginia WoolfIt is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
Virginia WoolfThe taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Virginia WoolfTags: words reading books literature
« first previous
Page 10 of 122.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.