The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:
We were sitting one morning two Summers ago, Ferenc Molnár, Dr. Rudolf Kommer and I, in the little garden of a coffee-house in the Austrian Tyrol. “Your writing?” we asked him. “How do you regard it?” Languidly he readjusted the inevitable monocle to his eye. “Like a whore,” he blandly ventured. “First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for the pleasure of my friends. And now — I do it for money.”
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf
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Una habitación propia
Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.”
"Women and Fiction"
Granite and Rainbow (1958)
Contexto: The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life … it is only when we can measure the way of life and the experience of life made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
Virginia Woolf
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La señora Dalloway
Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
Virginia Woolf
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Las olas
Fuente: The Waves
“Life stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said.”
Virginia Woolf
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La señora Dalloway
Part III, Ch. 3
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway
Contexto: "Like a work of art," she repeated, looking from her canvas to the drawing-room steps and back again. She must rest for a moment. And, resting, looking from one to the other vaguely, the old question which transversed the sky of the soul perpetually, the vast, the general question which was apt to particularise itself at such moments as these, when she released faculties that had been on the strain, stood over her, paused over her, darkened over her. What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other; herself and Charles Tansley and the breaking wave; Mrs. Ramsay bringing them together; Mrs. Ramsay saying, "Life stand still here"; Mrs. Ramsay making of the moment something permanent (as in another sphere Lily herself tried to make of the moment something permanent) — this was of the nature of a revelation. In the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing (she looked at the cloud going and the leaves shaking) was struck into stability. Life stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said. "Mrs. Ramsay! Mrs. Ramsay!" she repeated. She owed it all to her.
“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
Virginia Woolf
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Las olas
Fuente: The Waves
“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
Virginia Woolf
The Common Reader
Fuente: The Common Reader
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf
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Una habitación propia
Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 18
Contexto: The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.