Virginia Woolf Quotes

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

You can still be strong and be feminine.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.

I feel our brides are empowered women who know what they want and have a strong sense of their identity. Obviously, they love fashion and glamour.

I just wanna hear my own voice.