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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny
Love it! Why? Because even after so many years her question and still relevant, the answers she discovers are still present. Crazy to think we are still full over it.
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
"Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed."
“when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.”
“but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.”
"Have you any notion how many books are written [by men] about women in the course of one year?" "Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? "
“Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?”
// Listen to it while walking for Walking Month.
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
"Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed."
“when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.”
“but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.”
"Have you any notion how many books are written [by men] about women in the course of one year?" "Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? "
“Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?”
// Listen to it while walking for Walking Month.
A Room of One’s Own punched me in the face. For a few days after I finished, I thought about this book still, lost in it.
I have been familiar with Woolf’s work for some time, and had heard time and time again of her brilliance. Even with my expectations, I found this little book utterly spellbinding. Woolf’s insight—almost beyond her time—transcends through sparkling prose. Fluidly, meticulously, she reaches up into every branch of the question she seeks to answer. Her frustrations are poised and articulate, her rage is imminent, though cleverly executed so as not to allow herself to be brushed aside. Woolf’s use of language is simply unmatched; every sentence a song. A Room of One’s Own is every piece of genius it was advertised to me.
I do believe every woman should read this book. Every writer. Perhaps every person should take some time to sit with Virginia Woolf and read this beautiful lecture, think about the history of women in fiction, contemplate her words. I loved this book, through and through.
I have been familiar with Woolf’s work for some time, and had heard time and time again of her brilliance. Even with my expectations, I found this little book utterly spellbinding. Woolf’s insight—almost beyond her time—transcends through sparkling prose. Fluidly, meticulously, she reaches up into every branch of the question she seeks to answer. Her frustrations are poised and articulate, her rage is imminent, though cleverly executed so as not to allow herself to be brushed aside. Woolf’s use of language is simply unmatched; every sentence a song. A Room of One’s Own is every piece of genius it was advertised to me.
I do believe every woman should read this book. Every writer. Perhaps every person should take some time to sit with Virginia Woolf and read this beautiful lecture, think about the history of women in fiction, contemplate her words. I loved this book, through and through.
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All-time favourite
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Honestly couldn’t do it anymore the war and picnic references were killing me
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