Virginia Woolf Country Quotations

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

As a woman, I have no country

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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.