Feminism Quote by Jane Goldman

“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies, in the…

— Jane Goldman

“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

“Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed to the…

— Jane Goldman

“The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny, modernism, aesthetics In the 1970s and 1980s, Woolf studies expanded in a number of directions, most notably in…

— Jane Goldman

“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented &…

— Anonymous

“The Bloomsbury Group has been characterised as a liberal, pacifist, and at times libertine, intellectual enclave of Cambridge-based privilege. The Cambridge men of the…

— Jane Goldman

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

“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works of Virginia…

— Jane Goldman

“Virginia Woolf said, speaking from the perspective of the writer, that there’s no such thing, objectively, as a good or a bad novel, there’s…

— Joanna Kavenna

“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken…

— Sigrid Undset

“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend Vita Sackville-West,…

— Jeanette Winterson