Writing Quote by Bonnie Huie Download Open image ““Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.”” — Bonnie Huie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Virginia Woolf Writing
“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“And just now I pick up the blessed diary of Virginia Woolf which I bought with a battery of her novels Saturday with Ted. And she works off her depression over rejections from Harper’s (no less!—and I hardly can believe that the Big Ones get rejected, too!) by cleaning out the kitchen. And cooks haddock & sausage. Bless her. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share
“Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism, sexual/textual politics While it might be tempting to generalise that Woolf ’s writing was being discussed almost in two separate… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share
“The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a moment and… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies, in the 1990s and in the new millennium, has continued to flourish and diversify in all its numerous and proliferating aspects. In this recent period the topics that occupied earlier critics continue in new debates, on her modernism,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share
“I made the best mistakes. It was not like the sun came up or I stopped crying or I had any more power within… — Bonnie Huie Copy Share Image
“But remember that in order to symbolize everything to everyone, you will be both loved and hated.” — Bonnie Huie Copy Share Image
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Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image