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A review by hannahb_epub
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
4.0
okok so this needs to be a four, i very nearly gave it a five but it just took me so long to read lol. its funny going to barbie and seeing all these men complain that it's woke garbage when literally these feminist ideals have been festering for so fucking long. i highlighted so much shit in this book that it's impossible to find some of my favourite take aways, especially because the whole main idea is "hey wouldn't it be nice if the two sexes were equal instead of constantly being pitted against each other and having their accomplishments defined by, first woman to".
anyway, i really loved woolf's takes in this book on women and fiction. i didn't really understand where she was going when she first presented the idea of 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write'. because a lot of great novels are written under extenuating circumstances and diamonds are made under pressure blah blah blah. but it merely means, 'hey if women didn't have their assigned female duties plaguing their minds constantly, imagine what she could write'.
there's no point in chucking like all of the best bits here because a lot of the ideas are very welcomed these days. i love the way she writes, its so beautiful and poetic so I'm gonna chuck a couple phrases in here which inspire me to write because then i can come back and look at this review instead of leafing through my book for the highlighted passages lol.
"on the further bank the willows wept in perpetual lamentation, their hair about their shoulders. the river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if he had never been."
"it was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in window panes like the beat of an excitable heart."
"if i had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before i could set pen to paper."
look and here i'll leave some quotes about feminism to remind u that equal sexes is not a woke ideal.
"the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man."
"if through their incapacity to play football women are not going to be allowed to practice medicine -"
"she was [mary charmichael] afraid of something; afraid of being called 'sentimental' perhaps; or she remembers that women's writing has been called flowery and so provides a superfluity of thorns;"
lastly, because this made me laugh:
"the poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women'. which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them." LOL
anyway yeah this book was awesome and i feel educated and inspired. the essay ends with ms woolf telling younger woman what they must do if and when they have money and of room of their own.
"i hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."
i hope so too.
anyway, i really loved woolf's takes in this book on women and fiction. i didn't really understand where she was going when she first presented the idea of 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write'. because a lot of great novels are written under extenuating circumstances and diamonds are made under pressure blah blah blah. but it merely means, 'hey if women didn't have their assigned female duties plaguing their minds constantly, imagine what she could write'.
there's no point in chucking like all of the best bits here because a lot of the ideas are very welcomed these days. i love the way she writes, its so beautiful and poetic so I'm gonna chuck a couple phrases in here which inspire me to write because then i can come back and look at this review instead of leafing through my book for the highlighted passages lol.
"on the further bank the willows wept in perpetual lamentation, their hair about their shoulders. the river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if he had never been."
"it was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in window panes like the beat of an excitable heart."
"if i had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before i could set pen to paper."
look and here i'll leave some quotes about feminism to remind u that equal sexes is not a woke ideal.
"the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man."
"if through their incapacity to play football women are not going to be allowed to practice medicine -"
"she was [mary charmichael] afraid of something; afraid of being called 'sentimental' perhaps; or she remembers that women's writing has been called flowery and so provides a superfluity of thorns;"
lastly, because this made me laugh:
"the poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women'. which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them." LOL
anyway yeah this book was awesome and i feel educated and inspired. the essay ends with ms woolf telling younger woman what they must do if and when they have money and of room of their own.
"i hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."
i hope so too.