Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
This is the first sentence of the novel, which follows Clarissa Dalloway through a single day in London in June 1923 as she prepares to give a party. Woolf had first used the character in her earlier novel The Voyage Out.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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.
All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players;
Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –
Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! / And I would that my tongue could utter / The thoughts that arise in me.