Virginia Woolf Quote

When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — 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 one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.


Ch. 1 (p. 4). - A Room of One's Own (1929)


When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came...

When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came...

When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came...

When a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came...