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Virginia Woolf
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- “Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Virginia Wool...”
- “("you wouldn't agree with Virginia Woolf that there is such a thing as a woman's prose style?") I don't know. I am not g...”
- “We have dined well. The fish, the veal cutlets, the wine have blunted the sharp tooth of egotism. Anxiety is at rest. Th...”
- “Lord, how I praise God that I had a bent strong enough to coerce every minute of my life since I was born! This fiddling...”
- “I will use these last pages to sum up our circumstances. A map of the world. [...]I seldom see Lytton; that is true. The...”
- “Of the modern writers, Virginia Woolf is one who consistently attempted to place women at the center of her thinking. Bu...”
- “I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk...”
- “Something, perhaps, we must believe in, and as Orlando, we have said, had no belief in the usual divinities she bestowed...”
- “On the towpath we met & had to pass a long line of imbeciles. The first was a very tall young man, just queer enough to ...”
- “This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford...”
- “Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power of some inner compulsion. The trees wave,...”
- “What is extraordinary is that the hostility the [Bloomsbury] group originally provoked is still with us and is often exp...”
- “I don't like Virginia Woolf that much...I'm interested in Virginia Woolf, the critic. All the texts in The Common Reader...”
- “But delightful though it is to indulge in righteous indignation, it is misplaced if we agree with the lady's-maid that h...”
- “It is also possible to use fictitious characters to highlight an absence, as Virginia Woolf does in A Room of One's Own ...”
- “What a born melancholiac I am! The only way I keep afloat is by working. Directly I stop working I feel that I am sinkin...”
- “I am tired of hearing Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson held up as the matriarchs of feminist and/or women's literature...”
- “Mrs Ramsay sat silent. She was glad, Lily thought, to rest in silence, uncommunicative; to rest in the extreme obscurity...”
- “Our thinking does tend to be dominated-colonized, you might say-by the history of patriarchal thought and language, but ...”
- “Our friends, how seldom visited, how little known - it is true; and yet, when I meet an unknown person, and try to break...”
- “Rita Giacoman is the first hardcore Palestinian feminist we meet. She cites Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, speaks...”
- “I know that Virginia Woolf's entire literary project was to find the space, the frozen moment in time, where the individ...”
- “While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurit...”
- “In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British M...”
- “When a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can...”
- “The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average w...”
- “How begin to describe the permission Woolf's feminism and artistry bestowed on the hopeful beginner? For me, her work, w...”
- “Our patience wore rather thin. Visitors do tend to chafe one, though impeccable as friends. L. and I discussed this. He ...”
- “You are not listening to me. You are making phrases about Byron. And while you gesticulate, with your cloak, your cane, ...”
- “They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the ...”
- “But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature b...”
- “(What women writers, contemporary or historical, well-known or obscure, do you count among your most important literary ...”
- “Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not...”
- “For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry wo...”
- “She felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There we...”
- “Let us never cease from thinking-what is this 'civilization' in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and w...”
- “I have seen very few people. Nessa came again. How painful these meetings are! Let me try to analyse. Perhaps it is that...”
- “The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments a...”
- “But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything...”
- “Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might ...”
- “We have been to Rodmell, and as usual I come home depressed - for no reason. Merely moods. Have other people as many as ...”
- “The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years,...”
- “Margaret Ll. Davies writes that Janet is dying and will I write on her for The Times - a curious thought, rather: as if ...”
- “She had done the usual trick - been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all li...”
- “When I read Virginia Woolf's Orlando or William Carlos Williams's In the American Grain, I can feel like I'm dying, or I...”
- “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing the...”
- “We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is...”
- “I am amused at my relations with her: left so ardent in January - and now what? Also I like her presence and her beauty....”
- “Reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando was an event... it's all right to make your man turn into a woman, it's all right to ha...”
- “Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you becom...”