Quote of Virginia Woolf - A woman must have money and...
Biography - Virginia Woolf:
English writer.
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Quotes about woman:
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.
Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.
Quotes for: writing
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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