A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

by Virginia Woolf

You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in;

Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

good books are desirable and that good writers, even if they show every variety of human depravity, are still good human beings.