“You cannot find peace by avoiding a life.”
“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
“If one could be friendly with women, what pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
“It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
“It’s not catastrophes, murders, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
all by Virginia Woolf