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
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
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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