Tag Archives: Thought for the Day

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monks House, in East Sussex.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monks House, in East Sussex.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monks House, in East Sussex.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s … Continue reading →

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened, or more particularly, sick. Phyllis McGinley, American essayist

Philosophy … means looking at things which one takes for granted and suddenly seeing that they are very odd indeed. Iris Murdoch, British writer