โWhen a subject is highly controversial โ and any question about sex is that โ one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give oneโs audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.โ
โ Virginia Woolf, โA Room of Oneโs Ownโ
โThe strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?โ
โ Virginia Woolf, โJacobโs Roomโ
โWhile fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.โ
โ Virginia Woolf, โOrlando: A Biographyโ
