Virginia Woolf

1882–1941 · English novelist & essayist

Virginia Woolf was a leading figure of English literary modernism, known for novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. In A Room of One’s Own (1929) — expanded from lectures she gave to women students at Cambridge — she argued that a woman needs money and privacy to write, a text that became a foundational work of feminist literary criticism.

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2 quotes we’ve traced to 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”

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”

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Not actually Virginia Woolf

Often misattributed to Virginia Woolf

Famous lines widely pinned on Virginia Woolf that we’ve traced to someone else.

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

actually David Hare

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