A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf states it as her one “minor point” on the subject of women and fiction. The book grew out of two lectures she gave at the women’s colleges Newnham and Girton at Cambridge in October 1928.
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.