Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer.
She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the 20th-century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Born in an affluent household in Kensington, London, she attended the Ladies’ Department of King’s College and was acquainted with the early reformers of women’s higher education. She published her first novel titled The Voyage Out in 1915, through the Hogarth Press, a publishing house that she established with her husband, Leonard Woolf.
Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Read below some of the Quotes of Virginia Woolf.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
