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    <body><![CDATA[There are so many books that one ‘just knows’ what they are going to be about. I have always ‘known’ about this book and ‘knew’ what it would be about. Feminist rant, right? Oh, these people do so preach to the choir, don’t they? Why do they hate men so much? In the end they are no dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11457130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how I got to be this old without reading A Room of One's Own. But in a way, I have read it before, because the arguments Woolf made in 1928 form the foundation of most feminist intellectual thought. But I think if I'd read this book in my twenties or early thirties, it wouldn't have mad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22741312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woolf’s fictional tale of Judith Shakespeare’s tragic life brings to mind the choices women today face as working mothers. My mother grew up earning straight A’s while taking care of her family, writes beautifully in both English and Chinese, was named Best Actress for her college play perform...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/813341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is, quite uncharacteristically, a quick and easy read. Perhaps Virginia did this because she was writing about something important and wanted the piece to actually be read. Or, it could simply be that the very seeds of the work were cultivated towards public presentation. In any case, I'm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46349457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of those classic essays that I should have read a long time ago, but of course one can never read absolutely everything that one should read. <br/><br/>Woolf's argumentative strategy is very different from standard Western philosophical argumentation. One the surface it meanders and goes out on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12972443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, call me everything that's wrong with men today but I did not like this book.  I felt that Virginia Woolf, though justified in the idea that women needed more equality in being accepted to libraries and colleges, is still searching for what will never bring happiness.  If we truly abandon ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49813488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the battle of Virginia Woolf vs. Sylvia Plath for the hearts of all the adolescent girls in the world, I have to say I'm rooting for Woolf.  Though not a feminist buff, she's one of the only authors I've read (and certainly the earliest) that seems unabashedly and effortlessly female without ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1501596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eloquent inspiration for women writers. Yes, a classic.<br/><br/>For anyone who missed this in women's lit or women's studies, and/or needs a dose of inspiration and reminder, &quot;...that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.&quot;<br/><br/>Woolf provides some interesting ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75021220">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must confess I came to read the book not because I was in the mood for Virginia Woolf's prose, but because I was listening to Shakespears Sister's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0">Stay </a> a few weeks ago and I was wondering how they chose their name. So, thanks to Google, I made the right connections and I ended up reading  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/index.html">this</a> on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74804650">more...</a>]]></body>
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