[Vwoolf] VW "quotes"

Jody Rosen jrrnyc at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 12:12:15 EST 2012 

It's a bit lengthy for a poster, but this passage from
*Orlando*immediately came to mind when you asked for quotable
questions:

She was married, true; but if one’s husband was always sailing round Cape
Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked
other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than
anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her
doubts.

I'd love to see the finished posters--are you planning to sell them, and if
so, will they be available to those of us who can't make it to the
conference?

Best,
Jody

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Keri Barber <barber.keri at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hopefully someone didn't note this one already:
>
> "It might be falling in love. But why with Miss Kilman?"
> MD
>
> Keri Barber
>
>   *From:* Adolphe Haberer <Adolphe.Haberer at univ-lyon2.fr>
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 6, 2012 3:39 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] VW "quotes"
>
> Here's one more, from Jacob's Room:
>
> "Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are
> cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any
> case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that
> we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being
> shadows. And why, if this--and much more than this is true, why are we
> yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man
> in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most
> solid, the best known to us--why indeed?"
>
> Ado
>
> Adolphe Haberer
> Professeur émérite, Université Lumière-Lyon 2,
> 1, route de Saint-Antoine
> F-69380 Chazay d'Azergues
> tel & fax +33 (0)4 78 43 65 24
> E-mail : <Adolphe.Haberer at univ-lyon2.fr>, <ado at haberer.fr>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I suppose we can all do this sort of thing:
> >
> > About another unwelcome visitor: ". . . meretricious, cheap, hard, with
> ideas like a string of beads from Woolworths." (Diary)
> >
> > From almost any Woolf novel: "She turned from the china cabinet with a
> cup in her hand.  The windows blazed.  She was filled with rapture."
> >
> > From "The Years": "The bugles on her dress glittered in the
> candlelight.  Was that the nineteenth century? Martin wondered.  Was that
> all it was?"
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> > From: <mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:12 PM
> > To: <mailto:vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote
> >
> > It's getting worse!  I have never heard of this quote either!  How often
> did VW write "paralysing" with a ZED?
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > From: <mailto:alionadovghei at yahoo.com>Aliona Dovghei
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:05 PM
> > To: <mailto:vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote
> >
> >
> > Just right now found on Facebook. A coincedence!
> >
> > "Why should I be bothering myself with questions which shall eternally
> remain unanswered? How queer that wave of agony; melancholy paralyzing my
> senses, beautifully, yet for nothing."
> > - Virginia Woolf in a diary entry dated 5 July 1919
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 11/6/12, Desanti, Carole <Carole.Desanti at us.penguingroup.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Desanti, Carole <Carole.Desanti at us.penguingroup.com>
> > Subject: RE: [Vwoolf] VW quote
> > To: "Aliona Dovghei" <alionadovghei at yahoo.com>,
> vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> > Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12:00 AM
> >
> > "I will not be 'famous,' 'great.'
> > I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes,
> refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to
> let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."
> > - Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
> >
> > Carole DeSanti
> > Vice President, Editor at Large
> > Viking Penguin
> > 375 Hudson St
> > NYC NY 10014
> >
> > 212 366 2907
> > 212 366 2365 (fax)
> > 413 549 4129 (Massachusetts ph&fax)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vwoolf-bounces+carole.desanti=
> us.penguingroup.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu on behalf of Aliona
> Dovghei
> > Sent: Mon 11/5/2012 4:56 PM
> > To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: [Vwoolf] VW quote
> >
> > You cannot find peace by avoiding life. <<
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/virginiawo380774.html>
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/virginiawo380774.html>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/5/12, Christine Froula <cfroula at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >        From: Christine Froula <cfroula at northwestern.edu>
> >        Subject: [Vwoolf] No need to hurry...
> >        To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> >        Date: Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:54 PM
> >                    Dear Leslie and all--
> >              I once taught a freshman seminar on Woolf in which we
> studied the Hogarth Press's doings and the head of our Special Collections
> Library taught the students to print on the library's hand press. A
> favorite with the class was the "No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No
> need to be anybody but oneself" from A Room of One's Own.
> >              Have fun,
> >        Christine
> >                    On 11/5/2012 3:23 PM, Leslie Hankins wrote:
> >
> >                Hello all, I'm designing a letterpress poster of Woolf's
> most beloved questions and wanted to open up my selection to the listserve.
> >                              Please send me questions from any of her
> works!  I hope to have the broadside ready for the VW conference in British
> Columbia in June.
> >                              Looking forward to the avalanche of queries!
> >                                                          leslie
> >                              President, International Virginia Woolf
> Society
> >                Leslie Kathleen Hankins
> >                Professor of English
> >                Department of English and Creative Writing
> >                Cornell College
> >                Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314
> >
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