Virginia Woolf Feminism Quotes

#1. Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.

James Cameron

#2. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Making food a commodity to be owned was one of the great innovations of our culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of our economy, for if the food wasn't under lock and key, who would work?

Daniel Quinn

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

Virginia Woolf

#5. I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

Rebecca Solnit

#6. All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

#9. It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

Richard Schmid

#10. The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.

Jodi Picoult

#12. The soul needs more space than the body.

Axel Munthe

#13. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Virginia Woolf

#14. Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Courtney Love

#15. People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

Dalai Lama

#16. Here at the sea
especially at the sea
I could hear my sister's voice in the waves: Kira-kira! Kira-kira!

Cynthia Kadohata

#17. In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.

Emily Yellin

#18. I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Virginia Woolf

#19. Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.

Virginia Woolf

#20. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. Feminism we have to destroy

Virginia Woolf

#22. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Virginia Woolf

#23. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf