Virginia Woolf's quote

Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. Orlando

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. Orlando

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. A Room of One's Own

Books are the mirrors of the soul. Between the Acts

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. A Room of One's Own

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. A Room Of One's Own

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. Jacob's Room: The Shakespeare Head Press Editon of Virgina Woolf

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. Orlando

I am rooted, but I flow.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. A Room of One's Own

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. The Waves

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. Orlando

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. Orlando: A Biography

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.