Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Wikipedia

Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

Virginia Woolf

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

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

Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf