“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando
“Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse — though it isn't.”
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the revers…" by George Bernard Shaw?
George Bernard Shaw413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.
A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions (De l'influence des passions, 1796), Section 1, ch. 4
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 24
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Charlotte Rittenmeyer to Harry Wilbourne, in (Ch. 7) "Wild Palms"; p. 218
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)
Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.</p
“Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
Nanak (1469–1539) Founder of Sikhism
Raag Aasaa Mehal 1, p. 473; in Aad Guru Granth Sahib (1983 edition by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee); also in Guru Nanak and His Times (1971) by Anil Chandra Banerjee, p. 78
“the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate…”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States