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
inspirational pain women
Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
inspirational motivational men
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
inspirational believe belief
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
inspirational-life healing flow
I am rooted, but I flow.
inspirational country strong-women
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
inspirational honesty lying
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
inspirational needs sparkle
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
beauty british-author cutting heart laughter
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
convenient somebody term
I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.
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.
casual dusty found group lights meant newspaper reality room saying scrap seem stamps
What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
book heart known leaves past shut title
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title
altering aspect believe forever hence
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.