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
tree
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
running tombstone cutting
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
sea water depth
The depths of the sea are only water after all.
sunshine fog weather
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
choices living-my-life
It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
two silence chaos
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
chaos longing
Only longing can fill with more of itself.
darkness chaos
How can I express the darkness?
art women men
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
death men giving
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
slumber fiction burning
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
quality illness mystic
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
reading delight chiefs
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
inspiring war empowering
War is not women's history.