Virginia Woolf Berühmte Zitate
Zitate über Frauen von Virginia Woolf


Drei Guineen
"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." - Three Guinees, 1938, chapter 3
Zitate über Leben von Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf Zitate und Sprüche


Ein Zimmer für sich allein
"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." - A Room of One's Own, 1929, chapter 2
Virginia Woolf: Zitate auf Englisch
Quelle: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941
“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”
Quelle: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”
Quelle: The Waves
“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
Quelle: The Waves
“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”
Quelle: The Waves
“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn…”
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway