Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
british-author submerged truth
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
british-author poems signing wrote
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
audience came cannot chance drawing highly hold hope observe opinion subject whatever
When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
fiction money room woman
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
british-author money room woman
A woman must have money and a room of her own.
boy british-author order school send
You send a boy to school in order to make friends of the right sort.
british-author country woman
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.
british-author foreign gifts humour perish
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
foreign gift humor perish
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
brain brains buried machinery passion roaring soaring
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
british-author english-poet feeble force seems
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
phantom
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
benefits cannot fighting gratify insist instinct protect rationally sex shared understood
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
convenient somebody term
I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.