Virginia Woolf

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet . . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.  - Virginia Woolf

Odder still how possessed I am with the feeling that now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are… These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. - Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. - Virginia Woolf

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

The first duty of a lecturer: 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 mantlepiece forever. - Virginia Woolfe