Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that… - Virginia Woolf

" "
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

Artists careers arts encroachment empowerment abilities gender liberation occupation restrictions skills women-writers creativity Women

English

Collect this quote

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen

Alternative Names: Virginia Stephen • Adeline Virginia Woolf • Virginia Adeline Woolf • Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf • Virginia Stephen Woolf

All quotes from Virginia Woolf Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Virginia Woolf:

E. M. Forster Vladimir Nabokov Joyce Carol Oates Henry James Margaret Atwood

Additional quotes by Virginia Woolf

I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

If, then, one should try to sum up the character of women's fiction at the present moment, one would say that it is courageous; it is sincere; it keeps closely to what women feel. It is not bitter. It does not insist upon its femininity.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so … - Virginia Woolf

About Virginia Woolf

Also Known As

Unlimited Quote Collections

Additional quotes by Virginia Woolf

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI