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Virginia Woolf Quotes about Fighting

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Thinking is my fighting.

Thinking is my fighting.

Virginia Woolf
Healing, Fighting, Thinking
Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Virginia Woolf
Fighting, Bird, Satisfaction
Virginia Woolf (2014). “Three Guineas (Annotated)”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Virginia Woolf
Country, Sex, Fighting
Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Virginia Woolf
Fighting, Impossible, Humans
Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.74, Virginia Woolf

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf
War, Fighting, Clouds
Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Virginia Woolf
Fighting, Voice, Mad

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