Remarkable mind
Virginia Woolf
English novelist, essayist and publisher · 1882–1941
Virginia Woolf was a major modernist writer whose fiction experimented with time, memory and the flow of consciousness. Her essays also examined literature, artistic freedom and the material conditions that shape women’s ability to write.
Selected works and contributions
- Mrs Dalloway
- To the Lighthouse
- Orlando
- A Room of One’s Own
Ideas to explore
- Consciousness
- Time
- Identity
- Creative freedom
Virginia Woolf quotes in the generator
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
— Virginia Woolf
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
— Virginia Woolf
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf
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