# Quote — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

> Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

- Author: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md)
- Book: [A Room of One's Own](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own.md)
- Page: 26
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/have-you-any

## More from this book

> The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/the-beauty-of-the.md)

> For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/for-it-needs.md)

> Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/women-have-served.md)