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4373 quotes from Virginia Woolf: 'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.', '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.', and 'Books are the mirrors of the soul.'.
Discover Virginia Woolf famous and rare quotes. Share Virginia Woolf quotations about writing, books and heart. "A self that goes on changing is a..."
16 of the Best Virginia Woolf Quotes. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was one of the most important writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
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71 of the best book quotes from Virginia Woolf. 01. ″ [Woman’s] sensibility had been educated for centuries by the influences of the common sitting room. People’s feelings were impressed on her; personal relations were always before her eyes.
Arguably Virginia Woolf’s most famous quote is culled from her book ‘A Room of One’s Own’. In this statement, Woolf epitomizes her philosophy on feminism and the independence of women from the patriarchy. In her books, Woolf always sought to distinguish the female characters by giving them traits of independence.
Best Virginia Woolf Quotes. "Clear-cut and unequivocal am I too. Yet a vast inheritance of experience is packed in me. I have lived thousands of years. I am like a worm that has eaten its way through the wood of a very old oak beam. But now I am compact; now I am gathered together this fine...
“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.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. tags: freedom , women , writing. 12483 likes. Like. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. tags: food , love.
The Waves Quotes Showing 1-30 of 446. “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves. tags: clouds , star. 1945 likes. Like. “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake.
Jan 25, 2018 · 1. On recorded history. “Nothing has really happened until it has been described.” — Said to an acquaintance, Nigel Nicholson, who later became a successful publisher, memoirist, and politician....
