“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
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Virginia Woolf book Three Guineas
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Variant: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4