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

Woolf, Virginia on feminism
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"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

Woolf, Virginia on conformity
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

Austen, Jane on affection
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

Austen, Jane on income
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Austen, Jane on misfortunes
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

Austen, Jane on money
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."

Austen, Jane on opinions    Share

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Austen, Jane on bachelor
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

Austen, Jane on ridicule    Share

"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Lynn, Loretta on adultery
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world."

Bierce, Ambrose on atheism    Share

"If there is no God, everything is permitted."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on atheism
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"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)."

Orwell, George on atheism
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Woolf, Virginia on circumstance
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"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Woolf, Virginia on writers and writing    Share

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Woolf, Virginia on apathy
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"Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England."

Woolf, Virginia on aristocracy    Share

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

Woolf, Virginia on literature    Share

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on pain
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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

Woolf, Virginia on people
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"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."

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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."

Woolf, Virginia on banality
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"What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying"

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

Woolf, Virginia on sensitivity    Share

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"Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will."

Woolf, Virginia on sex    Share

"Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language."

Woolf, Virginia on translation
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on atheism
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