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- Virginia Woolf
- 1928
- “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
- “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
- “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
- “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
Explanation of the famous quotes in Orlando, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
- But there, sitting at the servants’ dinner table with a tankard beside him and paper in front of him, sat a rather fat, rather shabby man, whose ruff was a thought dirty, and whose clothes were of hodden brown.
- The biographer is now faced with a difficulty which it is better perhaps to confess than to gloss over. Up to this point in telling the story of Orlando’s life, documents, both private and historical, have made it possible to fulfil the first duty of a biographer, which is to plod, without looking to right or left, in the indelible footprints of truth; unenticed by flowers; regardless of shade; on and on methodically till we fall plump into the grave and write finis on the tombstone above our heads.
- Orlando had become a woman—there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.
- With some of the guineas left from the sale of the tenth pearl of her string, Orlando had bought herself a complete outfit of such clothes as women then wore, and it was in the dress of a young Englishwoman of rank that she now sat on the deck of the Enamoured Lady.
Quotes from Orlando. “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”. “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”. “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”.
Jan 11, 2024 · He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a novel by Virginia Woolf, which she called "a biography", intending it to be the first of a new genre breaking barriers between fiction and non-fiction.
Orlando study guide contains a biography of Virginia Woolf, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. More books than SparkNotes.
As Orlando reflects on love after her marriage to Shel, Woolf uses her thoughts to criticize male novelists’ definition of love. As a female novelist, Woolf is critical of both men’s exclusive ability to define love and the sexist expectations and limitations placed upon her as a writer.
