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
education laughter inspiration
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
dream travel book
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
women simple womanly
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
ridiculous curious protect
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
heart writing wind
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.
courage mean thinking
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
feelings madness extremes
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
women diversity poetry
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
book judging habit
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
happiness past thinking
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
inspirational motivational men
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
vision laying-down lighthouse
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
wall window-panes space
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
artist order effort
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.