Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing th >>

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, i >>

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and >>

Quotations about Public

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of hi >>

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the concl >>

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp. >>

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Woolf, Virginia