Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.