"I am not so gifted as at..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

“It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.”

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”

“I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.”

“I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

“I'm pretty as a girl.”

“The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.”

“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”

“What am I doing with the gifts that have been given and the opportunities that are mine to make things better for others? I think it's always - success has to be beyond the person who is themselves working for personal success. It's also got to be helping someone else.”