Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century, and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
It is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them, we may make them, take the mould of arm or breast but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births, they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.