Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Virginia Woolf History
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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
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.
Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. Virginia Woolf
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
Still, life had a way of adding day to day. Virginia Woolf
Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.