Eloquent, profoundly melancholic, intelligent and deeply wise, sentimental and provocative yet always raw in terms of emotion, Virginia Woolf was a woman entirely ahead of her time. This is made with much love and respect in her memory.

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She could not find any pure new words which had never been ruffled and creased and had the starch taken out of them by others. Virginia Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction Of Virginia Woolf - ? Apr 22nd 2013
In their letters Woolf and Sackville-West imagined each other. As they took photographs of each other — but almost never appeared in one together — so, too, did they pose and frame each other. How they imagined each other affected how they saw themselves. Sackville-West wanted Woolf to respect her as a writer. Woolf struggled to see herself as a sexual being. Both asked the impossible. Imagining their lives spilled over onto their thinking about the construction and representation of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity. Karyn Z. Sproles, Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West - ? Apr 3rd 2013

amybromley-deactivated20130422 asked: Re: the quote about Proust - do we know whether Woolf read A la recherche in its entirety? I'm trying to work out if/how far his work influenced her.

It took her years but yes, she finally read it. It says so in the biography by Hermione Lee. Read this essay. It is very explanatory on what she thought of Proust and contains valuable information on how he indeed influenced her.

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59 Things You Did Not Know About Virginia Woolf. - ? Mar 29th 2013
All I beg of you is don’t let anybody else read those letters. But one thing emerges whole and lucid - how very good you were to me, how very trying I was - all agog, all aquiver: and so full of storms and rhapsodies. Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters - ? Mar 25th 2013
Did you think I was ever so blind as to say that you, of all people, had conquered egotism? It is only that you ride it so magnificently that one doesn’t care if it’s egotism or altruism - it’s your uncautiousness I envy; not your selflessness. Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters - ? Mar 22nd 2013
I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the sky the clouds. I look up, through the trees, into the sky. The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever; if this moment could stay for ever. Virginia Woolf, The Waves - ? Mar 18th 2013
I did enjoy seeing you, and am wearing your necklace, and my exuberance, after all, is not my egotism, but your seduction. Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 22 May 1926 - ? Mar 15th 2013
It was nice having you…even in its less pronounced form. Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 19 November 1926. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)

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I am interested in impossible embodiments. I wish to write; I wish to write about certain things that cannot be held. I want to create a sea of freely-flowing words of no definite form and shape waves of fluent exactness. Virginia Woolf, Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 - ? Mar 11th 2013
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 April 1918 - ? Mar 10th 2013
I feel my brain is, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by March. Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 10 February 1919. - ? Mar 5th 2013

Short Documentary on Adeline Virginia Woolf, exploring her feminism, her relationship with Vita Sackville-West and the last years of her life. (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941).

“It was a cruel, self-inflicted death. Because she could swim very well. And the instinct of a person drowning must be to save themselves. She was wearing a heavy overcoat and had put stones in her pockets but all the same - she forced herself to die. One of the most gallant, in a way, actions of her own life.”

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There was scarcely anything left of body or mind by which one could say, “This is he” or “This is she.” Only sometimes - sometimes a hand was raised as if to clutch something or ward off something, or somebody groaned, or somebody laughed as if sharing a joke with nothingness. Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse - ? Mar 3rd 2013
  Virginia Woolf: Letter to Charles E. Brumwell on her essay “Three Guineas”, 12 July 1938. In Three Guineas Woolf explores the interconnection of patriarchal and fascist tyranny. In her essay, she hoped that the education at women’s colleges would produce the kind of people who will help prevent war. Three Guineas was read by feminist peace activists in the 1960s, and provided many of their slogans. On page 197 of the first edition, Woolf writes: “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: Letter to Charles E. Brumwell on her essay “Three Guineas”, 12 July 1938.


In Three Guineas Woolf explores the interconnection of patriarchal and fascist tyranny. In her essay, she hoped that the education at women’s colleges would produce the kind of people who will help prevent war. Three Guineas was read by feminist peace activists in the 1960s, and provided many of their slogans. On page 197 of the first edition, Woolf writes: “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.