Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

· 1882 - 1941 · 355 kata bijak

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

Virginia Woolf

Perjuangan

Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940)

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Keberanian

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.

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Mimpi

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us.

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Humor

You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.

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Kreativitas

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

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Motivasi

The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

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Kehidupan

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

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Kehidupan

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

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Kehidupan

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

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Kehidupan

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Kepemimpinan

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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Nasihat

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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Kehidupan

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Kehidupan

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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Kehidupan

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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Motivasi

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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Sukses

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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Keluarga

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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Pendidikan

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

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Keberanian

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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