"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   

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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   

"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   

"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   

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

Woolf, Virginia on habit   

"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   

"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   

"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."

Woolf, Virginia on philanthropists   

"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"

Woolf, Virginia on reality   

"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   

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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   

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

Woolf, Virginia on translation
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"Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?"

Woolf, Virginia on women
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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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