Quote by Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessin

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Happiness
Read Quote

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Conformity
Read Quote

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Truth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. – Christopher Hitchens

Category:
power

The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato

Category:
power

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George

Category:
power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
power

Random Quotes

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – Im going to get married at this age Im going to have a kid at this age – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I dont want my life to be based on that. – Julia Stiles

Category:
Age

Im pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we dont pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. – Peter Berg

Category:
respect

You dont need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. – Bertolt Brecht

Category:
Insurance

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. – Gloria Swanson

Category:
Romantic