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
Words belong to each other.
six feels stills
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
dog stress writing
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.
mother daughter baby
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
seems
We insist, it seems, on living.
silence needs done
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
dust desire dry
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
time bolts
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
people trying use
It is no use trying to sum people up.
running simple air
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.
running simple air
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.
motivational women power
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
children house anxiety
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
use
Use words that soak up life.