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Virginia Woolf quote on freedom of mind resurfaces
Original: "…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 Ow
A passage from Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own — "there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind" — is being widely shared and discussed. Commenters link the line to the essay's famous scene in which Woolf's narrator is barred from a college library, noting the book was written anyway. The quote is being read as a statement about intellectual freedom and resistance to exclusion.
Why now: The quote resonates amid current debates over access to books and ideas.
Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own
Evidence
- "…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, 1929 In the same book her narrator is turned away at a college library door. The door stayed shut. The book got written anyway. In Springfield, Missouri, a… · wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · 1
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