“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 · Courage quote

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 quote card
Novelist and essayist · 1882 – 1941

Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a central figure of literary modernism, famous for stream-of-consciousness novels such as Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) became a foundational feminist text on women and writing. With her husband Leonard she founded the Hogarth Press, which published her own work and that of T. S. Eliot and others.

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