A review by wailko
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that….”

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”

“That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor.”