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
“Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
Variante: Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”
Quelle: The Waves
Variante: But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
Quelle: Jacob's Room
5 December 1919
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Quelle: A Writer's Diary
Kontext: This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I'm almost alarmed to see how entirely my weight rests on his prop. And almost alarmed to see how intensely I'm specialised. My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child – wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
“… clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Quelle: Orlando
“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”
Quelle: Night and Day
“… But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful…”
Quelle: The Waves