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
years adequate strange
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
party giving silence
Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
illusion praise catastrophe
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
writing joy
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
spring autumn thinking
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
healing overwhelmed found
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
determination book creativity
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
mind insects fluttering
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
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.
london walks
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
fiction problem unsolved-problems
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
skeletons mrs-dalloway habit
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
religious cutting light
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
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?