"Have you any notion how many books..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”

“The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.”

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly”

“Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.”

“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.”

“A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.”

“Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.”

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”