#virginia

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#christiana-rossetti #inspiration #literature #vain #victorian-literature

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#learning #university-of-virginia #uva #education

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poet #virginia-woolf #home

But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid ascents and probing descents into shades and meanings — into more people, ideas and conceptions? Would it not be in color, rather than black-and-white, or more gray? I think it would. And thus, I not being them, could try to be more like them: to listen, observe, and feel, and try to live more fully. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#willa-cather #life

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Connie Britton

#boston #by the time #cut #down #drive

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock. ↗

— Connie Britton

#country #grew #i #interested #least

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bisexual #further #go #i #must

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#built #civil #civil war #darkness #facing

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#been #celebrate #century #community #east

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#couple #couples #married #married couple #other