A Room of Ones Own

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Rating: 3/5

This review sucks. But here, take an image, it makes up for it. We are visual creatures after all.

Cover of A Room of One's Own

Some of my many thoughts while reading:

Why is it copyrighted? What’s up with that, Sirius Publishing? Is it just because you wrote the introduction? Hm.

Does feminism necessarily have to be intersectional? Does a feminist necessarily have to stand up for all of pro-choice, for men’s rights, for all colors, for veganism, and perhaps Palestine and Ukraine too? Does that not dilute the message? I felt more strongly about this before reading this book. But feminism, poverty, a room of one’s own, etc.

Woolf has a lot of Wikipedia-page having family members. That’s probably a statement on something. Both parents and five of her siblings all have Wikipedia pages of their own.

Here’s some quotes that resonated with me.

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education tot bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one’s own.

Also, I was in Indigo recently and they had a section called “A ROOM OF HER OWN” with feminine stuff. Was that based on this book? Yay cultural impact.

I might need to institute a rule in the future where I’m not allowed to start reading a new book if I haven’t published the review for the previous one.