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Quotation from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
A Room of One's Own, Chapter Four
Woolf imagines the defiance a young woman writer of 1828 would have needed.
Citation: "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Chapter Four. (id woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-q5)
Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.
