# Virginia Woolf's most famous lines

From 'a room of her own' and the bolt you cannot set upon the freedom of the mind to Anon, who was often a woman: Virginia Woolf's most quoted lines, from her novels and essays, with the book they come from.

- 20 votes · 12 items
- Apr 14, 2021 · Ryan H.
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## Top 12

1. **Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
2. **Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 'Modern Fiction', The Common Reader (1925).
3. **No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
4. **As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Orlando (1928).
5. **A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
6. **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.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
7. **One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
8. **Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Room of One's Own (1929).
9. **Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mrs Dalloway (1925), first sentence.
10. **If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Moment and Other Essays (1948).
11. **Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three Guineas (1938).
12. **I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — A Room of One's Own (1929).

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