"A Room of One's Own" Quotes
In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf explores the societal and economic obstacles women face in achieving creative independence and intellectual freedom.
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Quotes
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind entire.
