violentwavesofemotion:

“To sit and breathe behind my screen, alone, is enough; to be strong, content; to feel no one’s thinking of me, to feel I have done certain things and can be quiet now, to be mistress of my hours; to feel detached from all sayings about me; and claims on me;”

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1932 featured in “The Diaries of Virginia Woolf,” (edited)