C.s. LewisI do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.
About This Quote
Virginia Woolf was a strong advocate for the importance of both virginity and old age. In her essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” she writes: “I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible. I think if we had a steady diet of good books and good music and the company of friends who were intellectually as well as artistically stimulating, we should be a more tolerant and therefore a happier race than we are. I have seen young girls of seventeen turned into old maids on account of marrying on false pretences, and I have seen old maids of sixty made young again after a brief flirtation.
I think there is no more glorious destiny than to wake up in the morning as a young girl and feel you have been granted a new life. It is marvellous what comes back to you from those half-forgotten days. There is some experience behind those childish days which perhaps can never be recaptured.”
Source: The Problem Of Pain
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