Woolf Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. — Jeanette Winterson
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up.… — Nick Hornby
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that… — Kevin Brockmeier
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam… — Rebecca Solnit
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in… — Virginia Woolf
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps… — Lily Koppel
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia… — Gwendoline Christie
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. — Cecil Beaton

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