Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

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  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Perhaps the androgynous mind is less apt to make these distinctions than the single-sexed mind. He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    I need not say that what I am about to describe has no existence; Oxbridge is an invention; so is Fernham;
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore I propose, making use of all the liberties and licences of a novelist, to tell you the story of the two days that preceded my coming here
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    I had slipped unthinkingly into praise of my own sex. “Highly developed”—“infinitely intricate”—such are undeniably terms of praise, and to praise one’s own sex is always suspect, often silly
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore I propose, making use of all the liberties and licences of a novelist, to tell you the story of the two days that preceded my coming here

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  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilised and uses all its faculties. Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine, I thought. But it would be well to test what one meant by man-womanly, and conversely by woman-manly, by pausing and looking at a book or two.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything els
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.
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