Virginia Woolf Quotes
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
Naveen Jain
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
Barbara Bush
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Olive Schreiner
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. Somerset Maugham
All I cared about in tennis was winning.
Pete Sampras
For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends.
Jonathan Levine
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
Virginia Woolf