Online Discussion: Quotes of Virginia Woolf: My top 3 quotes.

#  Instructions by Teacher

All students:
Here is an interesting writeup with top 10 quotes from Virginia Woolf.
Your task is to identify top 3 from these ten quotes and organise in the sequence of ur likeness. Do not miss to give the reason/s for your likeness.

Source: http://www.bustle.com/articles/57656-10-virginia-woolf-quotes-that-show-us-why-shes-still-a-literary-boss?utm_source=FBOnsite

1. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Hell yes. Since Woolf published her famous essay in 1929, “A Room of One’s Own” has become a feminist battlecry. Appropriated from its intended audience of female artists, the simple demand for independence and privacy now feels like the most basic — though sometimes most difficult to achieve — right of women everywhere.

2. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
Virginia Woolf wrote whatever subject she felt like writing about in whatever style she felt like writing in. Diaries, stream of consciousness, “purple” prose — Woolf refused to be pigeonholed. Oh, and she wouldn’t even give anybody a chance to reject her writing, by going straight to self-publishing.

3. “The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
Forget propriety and expectations. We can try to blame the Roaring ‘20s, but Woolf didn’t like to deny herself certain pleasures, whether it was a good book, a good debate, or an extramarital affair with another woman.

4. “Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”
Virginia Woolf was not a complacent woman. She worked for the things she wanted with tireless enthusiasm, whether the pursuit was political, romantic, professional, or intellectual. Pretty cool for a woman practically bred for entitlement.

5. “To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”
Woolf was a member of the intellectual class, but she wasn’t a snob. She wrote a lot about books and reading, and was adamant that access, not judgment, was what readers deserved. It would have been fun to know what she thought of Fifty Shades of Grey.

6. “They can because they think they can.”
Virginia Woolf didn’t like limitations, and gave us robust, thinking female protagonists, from party-throwing Clarissa Dalloway to portrait-painting Lily Briscoe. But of course, the person who broke through the most barriers, rose to the most challenges, was Woolf herself.

7. “Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
Woolf believed women should possess intelligence and independence and pursued both in her life and her writing. Many of her protagonists struggle with the desire to achieve one or both of these things.

8. “The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself.”
Virginia Woolf was not naïve enough to believe that just because women got the vote, that they had achieved equality. The more things change…

9. "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
Woolf often said that she was bored by men, and a belief in gender fluidity and sexual freedom paired with her lackluster confidence in men’s authority was evident in much of her writing. Don’t let the cardigans fool you.

10. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
In a time when silence, exile, denial, and shame were the prevailing attitudes towards sufferers of sexual abuse and mental illness, Woolf remained open and honest about her struggles. In the end, the knowledge that she could not escape her illness nor survive it any longer drove her to suicide at age 59, but she never once pretended that it wasn’t happening to her.

# My answer of the given task:

My three favourite quotes by Virginia Woolf:

1 "Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having"

     If you are not able to get anything after your hard work, it doesn't need to feel bad and to pretend over society or yourself that the thing or goal was not worth, it was all about dedication that was not sufficient.

2 "They can because they think they can"

     Thinking is the most necessary thing, if one cannot think it’s not possible to for her or him to do any think. first there should be an "idea" and then an "action" takes place. There are so many examples of successful people who succeed just because they think they could, as it is said, 'an idea can change your life'

3 “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

    One should have that capacity to accept the truth about her/his own self. If you cannot accept yourself with all your faults and bad habits which you are hiding to others, you could never accept others. First you should be aware of yourself and accept it. And follow the concept of truth regarding our own self.