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

—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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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

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

—Virginia Woolf

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.

—Virginia Woolf

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

—Virginia Woolf

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Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

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There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

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If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country—it's a whole other way of thinking.

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