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
peace war women
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
thinking years voice
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
years mind body
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
life writing attachment
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
daughter mother brother
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
happiness taxi-cabs sea
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
stars matter affair
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
skeletons mrs-dalloway habit
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
penalties
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
happiness mind way
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
optimistic writing usual
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
writing prose-and-poetry poetry-is
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
funny humor programming
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
men thinking views
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.