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When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf noted in her diary, “My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”

I couldn’t help but notice the placidity of a small, all-female household.

Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel

quiescence,

Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)

was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, that discomposed her; for then people said he depended on her,

Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse

What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.

Jennifer Saint • Ariadne: A Novel

“In this world love has no color— yet how deeply my body is stained by yours,”

Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex

"On or about December 1910 human character changed," Virginia Woolf famously declared. Gone, she wrote, were the old certainties, the old manners, the deference to nineteenth-century authority. Instead human beings—at least the ones in Woolf's circle—were starting to see the world as full of chaos and discontinuity. Einstein smashed the notion of a... See more

David Brooks • The Organization Kid

need not marry, thank heaven: she need not undergo that degradation. She was saved from that dilution. She would move the tree rather more to the middle.