Virginia Woolf: Frases en inglés

Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases en inglés.
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“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)

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

Virginia Woolf libro Entre actos

Fuente: Between the Acts

“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.”

Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Variante: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90

Virginia Woolf frase: “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”

Virginia Woolf libro Three Guineas

Fuente: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Contexto: 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.

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

Variante: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
Fuente: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays