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clairestrickett: Is there anything more difficult to write than the titles of personal emails? Virginia Woolf didn't have to title her letters, WHY MUST I

so_contrary: "I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful […]" Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

ariannoys: Reading a Virginia Woolf book at the Boygenius concert so Julien Baker wants me for how mysterious I am

Sabeenahmad1: And the poem , i think , is only your voice speaking . ~Virginia Woolf , The Waves

ethel_baraona: I was born on Virginia Woolf’s passing day.

MacCocktail: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf (died this day, March 28, 1941)

InlibroV: Virginia Woolf's writing desk (Woolf acquired this oak writing desk while she was in her teens and used it until she was around thirty years old.)

DurhamWASP: "Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." Virginia Woolf, 25th January 1882 – 28th March 1941

five_books: Virginia Woolf died on this day in 1941. What is your favourite Woolf book? Have we we covered it yet?

DasiyAvalanche: What would Virginia Woolf do? What would Fleabag do?

SharlandNM: 82 years ago, Virginia Woolf died. Her sentences, man: "She looked at Peter Walsh; her look, passing through all that time and that emotion, reached him doubtfully; settled on him tearfully; and rose and fluttered away, as a bird touches a branch and rises and flutters away."

caecilia1003: 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 Died in this day, in 1941 Virginia Woolf, around 1928. ©︎Pictorial Press/Alamy

MarshaE12231731: ‘Virginia Woolf’s cane found by a river’ Post from Patti Smith in monochrome today

HossainNilofar: “The wind blew, from what quarter I know not, but it lifted the half-grown leaves so that there was a flash of silver-grey in the air.” ― Virginia Woolf © Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

LiteraryVienna: „The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.“ Virginia Woolf

brainpickings: Virginia Woolf was slain by depression on this day in 1941. Here is the only surviving recording of her voice – a lyrical love letter to language

raquelbada_: The only advice I can give you… is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions» — VIRGINIA WOOLF

MacCocktail: “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf (died this day, March 28, 1941)

holdengraber: “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.” ~ Virginia Woolf Died on this day, in 1941

InadeBree: ‘It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, send clouds of blue and of purple flying over the land.’ Virginia Woolf, The Years, 1937

EalainGanAinm: "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf

O_Papa24: Yes i deserve a spring. I owe nobody nothing. Virginia Woolf

KANEEZBATOOL786: that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about somebody. It is a sign of vitality. ° Vita Sackville-West ° The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

CiteSeer: "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses." - Virginia Woolf

TrueQuotation: Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Virginia Woolf

callumthough: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Tom Cruise, apparently

helencftroy: marguerite yourcenar abt virginia woolf : "I do not believe I am committing an error… when I put Virginia Woolf among the four or five great virtuosos of the English language and among the rare contemporary novelists whose work stands some chance of lasting more than ten years."

fleg_bleebl: virginia woolf characters: i wish i could be perceived in all facets of my being with great empathy also virginia woolf characters: if anyone truly perceived me i would die

VpNavanita: The beauty of the world which is so fragile, has two edges, one of laughter, the other of anguish, cutting the heart into two. ~ Virginia Woolf Both with jagged ends… the beauty remains no matter…when all else cease to exist.

HorowitzKarin: Looking forward to reading Virginia Woolf for the first time in years, and after Dorothy Richardson. What will she be like, I wonder, after the experience of Pilgrimage?

dennistmc: “I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.” ~ Virginia Woolf

OldSkoolFunBot: Virginia Woolf is said to love writing modern fiction but back in the day our only fun was pissing in the wind

TheFrizzler: The “To the Lighthouse” book club starts 2 weeks from tonight It’s one of my very favorite books, and I can’t wait to read it again This class is designed for people reading it for the first time AND people who are rereading it

BBoParis: If you're anywhere near Virginia Woolf's old house and have good books to donate, here's a place. Jo, a good friend who's always an inspiration, has started a library in her village. The books you donate will have a new life.

cIairebIoom: diana rigg as martha in who’s afraid of virginia woolf (1996)

LackOfView: and English authors Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and James Joyce (1882-1941) plumbed the emotional source of human thoughts and motivations.

cmplbot: A cat named Sappho. Taken by Virginia Woolf, 1947.

RCdeWinter: 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

JSTOR_Daily: Virginia Woolf wrote only one play in her lifetime, mostly as a joke.

SebastianSmee: Virginia Woolf, “noting that the “Tale of Genji” was originally read aloud, wrote that Murasaki’s “listeners . . . were grown-up people . . . absorbed . . . in the contemplation of man’s nature; how passionately he desires things that are denied; how his longing…

MomiraMonika: I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences ..... Virginia Woolf Art: Edward Burne-Jones

Raghadiswriting: “I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.” — Virginia Woolf

Monica85198503: “But with you I am deeply passionately, unrequitedly in love.” ~ Virginia Woolf Via Disclose my love by Ray

Moontime_Crepes: "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf

BobClimko: Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Virginia Woolf

helencftroy: “She dreads us, she despises us, yet comes cringing to our sides because for all our cruelty there is always some name, some face, which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.” virginia woolf you are insane???

foyercoffee: a fun fact about WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? is that an Original Broadway Cast Recording was produced with the 1961 cast, so you can hear the full play with Uta Hagen as Martha:

WashUMUNC: personally? when I think constantin carrigan I think Virginia Woolf

rosemarysbabies: Virginia Woolf watching that moth die

JDBJDBJDB_: They just told me I have a rich inner world and I sound like Virginia Woolf omfg

jeffreynparker: “It is a curious fact that novelists have a way of making us believe that luncheon parties are invariably memorable for something very witty that was said, or for something very wise that was done. But they seldom spare a word for what was eaten.” Preach, Virginia Woolf.

mannendebutant: I don't even know why I'm reading Virginia Woolf works at 3 a.m.

helencftroy: virginia woolf joining me in the reversed seasonal depression gang she’s so real for this

TheHappiestPost: You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ~ Virginia Woolf

TrainingMindful: “You cannot find peace avoiding life.” ~ Virginia Woolf

berfinkara13: + Virginia woolf...

Mile_by_Mile: "...how she looked..."

nxneez: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” - Virginia Woolf

ceflores11: A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

thenameisShery: “I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

sturniolothinks: rest in peace alicent hightower you would've loved virginia woolf

JSTOR_Daily: Quick! What was Virginia Woolf’s best play?

mgeorg11: “Night had come – night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando A Biography

333butterfly111: the hours will forever be my favourite film but i want a whole film of nicole kidman being Virginia Woolf please

marsha_mcc: I'm having the worst Oldest day of my life! Some spirit is attaching themselves to me who is attached to Virginia Woolf I've seen her stuffy too adult self all morning. Anyone who knows my writing knows it's youthful and optimistic & HIGHLY UNIQUE & creative.

hilaalgunduz: + Virginia woolf

moomnataskeen: Mental fights mean thinking against the current, not within it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of fruit. ~Virginia Woolf

jbrianreed: From Mrs Dalloway: “Oh! thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party, here’s death, she thought.” Oh, Virginia Woolf, how were you so danged good at this?

forgetmebots: yes, dearest vita: i do miss you; i think of you: i have a million things, not so much to say, as to sink into you. tell me how you are and be very careful. virginia woolf, letter to vita sackville-west

Anita_Lagunes: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”.- Virginia Woolf.

SunstonedAlone: "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

CrisCa_Talan: "I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older." ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

ConnorH2192: Virginia and Leonard Woolf take Mitz the marmoset on a journey through Nazi Germany in 1935

BowersMuseum: Join author and Lynda Thomas Distinguished Lecturer Terry Newman online next Sunday! She’ll be sharing the clothes that literary greats wore - from Samuel Beckett’s Gucci bags to Virginia Woolf’s “Bloomsbury Set” fashion-sensibilities, Maya Angelou’s pearls among others.

Shan_zyyy: “How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?” -Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

RiveraSunAuthor: For most of history, Anonymous was a woman -Virginia Woolf, Then there was me!~Rivera

JSTOR_Daily: Woolf admired the accomplishments of her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, but she still thought Cameron was guilty of being a snobbish Victorian.

OutlawsPoetic: “But often now this body she wore ... this body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing — nothing at all. She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown.” —Virginia Woolf

_ui1422: Each has his past shut in him. Like the leaves of a book known him by his heart, And his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf

MadhumitaroyC: “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf Sushant Missed Beyond Measure

damiequotebot: where are you, how are you, and do you love me— — virginia woolf

soupdoesathing: Virginia Woolf really did know my heart.

wectar: No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. — Adeline Virginia Woolf

EmmaNoelLovato: Marked as to-read: The Waves by Virginia Woolf

iampoojabatra: A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living - Virginia Woolf

JupiterSpurlock: George Segal (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) and Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (Mike Nichols, 1966). Taylor was awarded an Oscar for her work and Segal was nominated.

bean_joyanna: I'm not sure what Virginia Woolf really meant by this quote but I do know she filled her coat pockets with rocks and walked into the Ouse River, drowning herself.

MBudha: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Marianne Stokes

sscheuch_bine: Virginia Woolf's Bed II, Monk's House, 2003

JSTOR_Daily: Virginia Woolf liked to take make fun of the pomposity of her parents’ erudite friends, and she wasn’t above using them for laughs in a script.

BobbyBauch: I watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the writing. The writing:

PISCESPRADA: “i adore looking at blossoming flowers. i like getting a sense of the world constantly reborn and enhanced.” — virginia woolf

worthwhilebooks: Based Virginia Woolf: “It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men…Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?”

MaggieHumm1: Delighted to give the Virginia Woolf Anniversary Lecture 28/03 7:30pm at Goodenough College on the anniversary of her death & on the site of her house in Mecklenburgh Sq.

wbslobin: Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf

botvirginia: Virginia and Leonard Woolf

dach82fvju: This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf's Intimate Circle OA2FEXA

jingmeichen: my proper interest in film started when i watched cleopatra at 14 and fell in love w cleopatra which then led to watching who’s afraid of virginia woolf and i’ve never been the same person since

DriaPustaka: “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf

ZacThriff: I spilled iced tea on the LEGO set I’ve been building and it’s the closest I’ve ever come to just pulling a Virginia Woolf

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