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Virginia Woolf quote circulates amid book ban debates
Original: thistleandmoss.com/p... "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upo
A passage from Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own is being shared widely: "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." Readers are posting it with hashtags on banned books, the freedom to read, libraries and queer literature, framing Woolf's words as a defense against current censorship efforts.
Why now: Ongoing debates over book bans and censorship, especially of LGBTQ titles, make Woolf's defense of intellectual freedom resonate.
Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own
Evidence
- thistleandmoss.com/p... "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, 1929 #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #Pride #Reading #Books · thistleandmoss.com@bsky.brid.gy · 3
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