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A review by mathildur
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
5.0
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry.
This is my second time reading A Room of One's Own and honestly I should have read it even more times than this. It is unmatched in how much Woolf managed to cram into these 100 odd pages, or that 1 hour lecture she gave on Women and Fiction. This will open your eyes and make you think, and see things, differently. It will make you angry and exasperated. It will make you grateful to live in this modern world, with all the rights and privileges you take for granted. It will make an impression, simple as that. A must-read!
"Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses. The middle-class woman began to write."