| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65310 |
| QUOTATION: | That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ... |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British author. A Room of One’s Own, ch. 1 (1929).
On being denied, on account of her sex, use of the library of a university she called “Oxbridge” Mi.e., either Oxford or Cambridge. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Woolf Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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