Typed index card which reads "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." ---Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932) #reading practices #advice

“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
—Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932)

Annotated on December 07, 2023 at 09:51PM

Happy 139th Birthday to Virginia Woolf whose essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) is the namesake of the Domain of One’s Own project.

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

black and white photo of Virginia Woolf in profile wearing a white top and with her hair pulled back into a bun.
By George Charles Beresford – Filippo Venturi Photography Blog, Public Domain,

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Every spring, I dread putting together my annual review materials. In March, a predominantly White room full of senior colleagues will discuss whether I meet th
He doesn’t even mention all the additional heavy mentoring work that he likely does for other minorities, POC, etc. which go above and beyond what his white colleagues are doing.

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Subtle hat tip to Virginia Woolf.

March 19, 2019 at 03:02PM