"But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a story one makes up in one’s mind about another per...
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
~ Virginia Woolf ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
More Virginia Woolf quotes
"Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He...
"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
"Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin...
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
"the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted a ...
"He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had...
"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean ...
"Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware t...
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one kno...
"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.