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Inspiring, War, Empowering. 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. Virginia Woolf. Peace, War, Women. A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)
“The War was over, except for some one like Mrs Foxcroft at the Embassy last night eating her heart out because that nice boy was killed and now the old Manor House must go to a cousin; or Lady Bexborough who opened a bazaar, they said, with the telegram in her hand, John, her favourite, killed; but it was over; thank Heaven – over.”
- No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf. Inspirational, Needs, Sparkle.
- A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living. Virginia Woolf. Self, Goes On.
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf. Life, Meaningful, Peace.
- I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. Virginia Woolf. Desire, Daily Life, Inarticulate.
This paper analyses Virginia Woolf's non-fiction and fiction writings in the years surrounding three wars which had a direct impact on her life: the First World War which shaped her generation and made her question the sanity of the society that went on living as if millions had not perished in vain, the Spanish Civil War to which she lost her ...
- Velid Beganović
- 2020
- “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.
- “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, A Room of One’s Own.
- “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts.
- “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” ― Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf Quote. 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. A Scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop.
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War determine an overt feminist-pacifist politics in Woolf's texts; up nuggets of truth, not suggestive strategies for gauging the effects. (effects that are never apolitical). Conversely, a postmodernist not lead Caughie to isolate Woolf's texts from the significant.
