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
Letter to Leonard Woolf (28 March 1941), from The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, p. 369, ISBN 0156935902
“The flowers flashed before they faded. She watched them flash.”
Between the Acts (1941)
Wednesday 8 April 1925
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Tuesday 2 September, 1930
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Saturday 21 April, 1929
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
“A light here required a shadow there.”
Part I, Ch. 9
To the Lighthouse (1927)
"A Letter to a Young Poet"
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)
Essay "Lewis Carroll" (1939); reprinted in The Moment, and Other Essays (1948)
Ch. 3 http://books.google.com/books?id=HSRFAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+is+the+nature+of+the+artist+to+mind+excessively+what+is+said+about+him+Literature+is+strewn+with+the+wreckage+of+men+who+have+minded+beyond+reason+the+opinions+of+others%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage
A Room of One's Own (1929)
26 July 1922
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
“Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.”
Quelle: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 2, p. 80
Diary entry on James Joyce's Ulysses (16 August 1922), quoted in Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (1953; 1965), p. 47