Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
Virginia WoolfNow, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
Virginia WoolfLife piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Virginia WoolfWhat is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
Virginia Woolf