Famous Quotes

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Virginia Woolf

• "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

• "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

• "For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

• "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

• "When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."