Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Never pretend that children, for instance, can be replaced by other things.
Virginia WoolfChastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia WoolfTags: sexuality liberty empowerment gender women morality feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy double-standards encroachment dignity social-norms suppression chastitiy
The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation.
Virginia WoolfTags: time
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
Virginia WoolfFor the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
Virginia WoolfThey are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am all prickles
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One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred a year — but the foolish woman sold the copyright of her novels outright for fifteen hundred pounds; had somehow possessed more knowledge of the busy world, and towns and regions full of life; more practical experience, and intercourse with her kind and acquaintance with a variety of character. In those words she puts her finger exactly not only upon her own defects as a novelist but upon those of her sex. at that time. She knew, no one better, how enormously her genius would have profited if it had not spent itself in solitary visions over distant fields; if experience and intercourse and travel had been granted her. But they were not granted; they were withheld; and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, VILLETTE, EMMA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, MIDDLEMARCH, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a respectable clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to, buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write WUTHERING HEIGHTS or JANE EYRE.
Virginia WoolfWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women on-fiction fiction problems women-writers
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia WoolfTags: arts empowerment gender women creativity liberation artists skills abilities encroachment occupation careers women-writers restrictions
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
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