Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
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Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
pursue truth with such astonishing
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
(As Joan Didion said, “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.”)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
And I don’t want to enshrine my own subjectivity in that particular way; don’t want to cloak it in the garb of authority.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
...Marianne is right that the age of thirty-seven--the first of my Reza years--is a time of reckoning, the time at which you have to acknowledge once and for all that your life has a shape and a horizon, and that you'll probably never be president, or a millionaire, and that if you're a childless woman, you will quite possibly remain that way. Then
... See moreClaire Messud • The Woman Upstairs
This gets to the crux of the Woolf that has been most exemplary for me: she is always celebrating a liberation that is not official, institutional, rational, but a matter of going beyond the familiar, the safe, the known into the broader world.
Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
How it felt to me : that is getting closer to the truth about a note book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going throu... See more