Virginia Woolf

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

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf - Diary, 17 February 1922
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf - The Waves (1931)
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

- Virginia Woolf