#virginia

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#damn #gave #her #i #me

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#almost #book #ever #first #great

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#felt #hollywood #i #island #just

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first. ↗

— Morgan Griffith

#been #except #first #most #things

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#back #band #being #craziness #ever

Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend Vita Sackville-West, a real woman. I do not know what kind of woman one would have to be to stand unflinchingly in front of The Canon, but I would guess, a real one. There is something sadistic in the whip laid on women to prove themselves as mothers and wives at the same time as making their way as artists. The abnormal effort that can be diverted or divided. We all know the story of Coleridge and the Man from Porlock. What of the woman writer and a whole family of Porlocks? For most of us the dilemma is rhetorical but those women who are driven with consummate energy through a single undeniable channel should be applauded and supported as vigorously as the men who have been setting themselves apart for centuries. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#virginia-woolf #women #writing #art

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#chief executive #commonwealth #executive #governor #represents

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#concentrated #continue #enemy #georgia #main

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#keep #known #say #sister #used