Virginia Woolf1882–1941The quotations of
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer
1882–1941
24 quotes, most often on Women, Life & Death and Writing.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51- A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
The Common Reader (1925)A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
“The Leaning Tower”, lecture delivered to the Workers’ Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)- A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35
- A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
- A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, pp. 43-44
- The Common Reader (1925), “Modern Fiction”
- Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
- To the Lighthouse (1927), Part I, Ch. 9
- Granite and Rainbow (1958), “Women and Fiction”
One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 4As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6- Books and Portraits (1977), “Thoreau”
