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“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
― Virginia Woolf

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.”
― Virginia Woolf

“she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech, for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilised. Brilliant and effective, powerful and masterly, as it may appear for a day or two, it must wither at nightfall; it cannot grow in the minds of others. Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.”
― Virginia Woolf

“First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“To love makes one solitary, she thought. She”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Je ne crois pas à la valeur des existences séparées. Aucun de nous n'est complet en lui seul.”
― Virginia Woolf

“All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley)”
― Virginia Woolf

“We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own silly letters.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Would it be too childish of me to say: I want? But I do want: theater, light, color, paintings, wine and wonder.”
― Sylvia Plath

“It is a terrible thing
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath