"A Room Of One's Own" Virginia Woolf

Before I say too much about Virginia Woolf this has to be seen in theatre. Its difficult to understand her theory or even "her humor" in this piece unless you understand her idea of equality? I sense equality and freedom to BE. If we all had a room and a little money we would be free? This perplexed me ..then I seen masterpiece theatre and watched an actress play out this slice oif literature and Virginia was born, in me. I love her incredible intelligence and she is non assuming. She directly believes and exhorts if we had a room and some money we could write. yes there is a deeper subject here but its pure and lovely. BE!
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"A Room Of One's Own"

Virginia Woolf

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions — women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. But in order to make some amends I am going to do what I can to show you how I arrived at this opinion about the room and the money. I am going to develop in your presence as fully and freely as I can the train of thought which led me to think this. Perhaps if I lay bare the ideas, the prejudices, that lie behind this statement you will find that they have some bearing upon women and some upon fiction. At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth.