The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

—Virginia Woolf

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About Virginia Woolf

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Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are "sides," and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. As people mature they cease to believe in sides or in headmasters or in highly ornamental pots.

—Virginia Woolf

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

—Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf

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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

—Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

—Virginia Woolf

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

—William Shakespeare

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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