Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying