In a single sentence, author Virginia Woolf encourages us to live with a strong foundation — to know our values and be grounded in a strong sense of self — but to remain adaptable and open to life:
"I am rooted, but I flow."
In a single sentence, author Virginia Woolf encourages us to live with a strong foundation — to know our values and be grounded in a strong sense of self — but to remain adaptable and open to life:
"I am rooted, but I flow."
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Give me a biography on Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English modernist writer born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London to historian Sir Leslie Stephen and philanthropist Julia Jackson. She grew up in a literary household, with siblings including artist Vanessa Bell, and began writing early despite limited formal education as a woman.
Woolf pioneered stream-of-consciousness narrative in novels like Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), exploring themes of time, identity, and perception. She co-founded the Hogarth Press with husband Leonard in 1917, which published her works and others like T.S. Eliot's. A key essayist and feminist, her A Room of One's Own (1929) argued for women's intellectual freedom.
Struggling with mental illness, Woolf died by suicide in 1941 amid WWII. Her innovative style influenced modern literature profoundly.