Top 15 Virginia Woolf 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.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

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

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.