The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
Virginia WoolfWhen you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia WoolfRansack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
Virginia WoolfLife piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
Virginia Woolfscarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
Virginia Woolf