"Indeed, I would venture to guess that..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
More by Virginia Woolf
“It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.”
“Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.”
“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”
More on Women
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
“Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.”
“A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”
More on History
“I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.”
“Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?”
“Despotism is a long crime.”