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Person·Virginia Woolf✕clear

Essay · Feminist literature

Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 4.7

Essay · Feminist literature

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Essay · Feminist literature

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Essay · Feminist literature

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

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

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 2.1

Novel

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf

1928

★ 1.9

Essay · Feminist literature

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

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 1.3

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