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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

Woolf taught herself to write in her father's library, published her own books through the Hogarth Press she ran with her husband Leonard, and reinvented the English novel. Mrs Dalloway follows a single day. To the Lighthouse follows a family across a decade and a war. A Room of One's Own argues that women need money and privacy to write. She suffered from severe depression throughout her life. Her prose, at its best, captures what it feels like to be conscious, moment by moment, in a world that keeps moving.

Concepts

absurd, agency, authenticity, conformity, escape, freedom, loneliness, meaning, oppression, praxis, rebellion

Quotes (9)

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” — A Room of One's Own (1929)
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” — A Room of One's Own (1929)
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — The Voyage Out (1915)
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” — Monday or Tuesday (1921)
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” — To the Lighthouse (1927)
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — A Room of One's Own (1929)
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt th...” — A Room of One's Own (1929)
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — A Room of One's Own (1929)
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — The Voyage Out (1915)