Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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    The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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    A masterpiece is ... something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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    Most of a modest woman’s life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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    The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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    Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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