Variant: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge.An important feminist text, the essay is noted in its argument for both a literal and figurative space for women’s writers within a literary tradition dominated by men.
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
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A Room of One's Own (1929)
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 6, p. 117)
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
Variant: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
Source: A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 26
