Virginia Woolf was born on this date in 1882. Here are 10 things she said.
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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