VIRGINIA WOOLF

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."

"Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself."

"I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me."

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

"For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."

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

"We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."

"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time."

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"I am rooted, but I flow."

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