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

> The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- 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: 18
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/the-human-frame

## 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)