The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West (1892–1962,) Lady Nicolson, CH, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
—Vita Sackville-West
Topics: Freedom
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
—Vita Sackville-West
Topics: Life
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
—Vita Sackville-West
Topics: Weakness
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