Virginia Woolf citáty
Virginia Woolf
Datum narození: 25. leden 1882
Datum úmrtí: 28. březen 1941
Další jména:Adeline Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolfová byla významná anglická spisovatelka, literární kritička, esejistka, vydavatelka, filozofka a feministka. Zároveň byla členkou Bloomsbury Group, což byla skupina avantgardních umělců a intelektuálů. Některá z jejích děl jsou součástí výuky o modernismu.
Podobní autoři
Freya Madeline Starková2
britská cestovatelka a spisovatelka
Charlotte Brontë6
anglická spisovatelka a básnířka
Anne Brontë6
britská spisovatelka a básnířka
Leonard Woolf1
anglický politický teoretik, autor, nakladatel a státní ú...
Mary Shelley1
anglická spisovatelka
Philippa Gregory2
anglická spisovatelka
Ruth Rendell5
britská spisovatelka
Phyllis Dorothy James2
anglická spisovatelka
Jeanette Wintersonová6
anglická spisovatelkaEmma Hart11
anglická spisovatelkaCitáty Virginia Woolf
„Život je těžký, člověk potřebuje hroší kůži - a tu nemá“
— Virginia Woolf
kniha Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
„Books are the mirrors of the soul.“
— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
„Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.“
— Virginia Woolf
The [http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ Quote Investigator] traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:
„As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.“
— Virginia Woolf
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
Ch. 3, p. 109
„One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.“
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Context: The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Ch. 1, p. 18
