VIRGINIA WOOLF - QUOTES COLLECTION BIOGRAPHY, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIFE LESSONS ABOUT VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf, a luminary of the modernist literary movement, stands as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, in London, England, she was the daughter of Julia Prinsep Jackson Duckworth Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen, a notable historian, author, and editor. Virginia was raised in a vibrant intellectual environment, surrounded by the luminaries of the Victorian literary scene. QUOTES SAMPLES: "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." "My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?" "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves." "Arrange whatever pieces come your way."