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It was such a pleasure to come back to this gem--especially after having read most of the works she mentions. I think it's my favorite work of Wolf's.
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“ Men who have no apparent qualifications save that they are not women”
“Indeed I would venture to guess that a Anon-who wrote so many poems without signing them was often a woman”
I loved this. Thick intellectual sarcasm from 100 years ago. SIGN ME UP!!
This is hilarious. I tried to read Woolf one other time and it made no sense to me whatsoever. I’m so glad that I tried this one. I would have loved to see her give one of these lectures. The tone would have made it even better.
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“Indeed I would venture to guess that a Anon-who wrote so many poems without signing them was often a woman”
I loved this. Thick intellectual sarcasm from 100 years ago. SIGN ME UP!!
This is hilarious. I tried to read Woolf one other time and it made no sense to me whatsoever. I’m so glad that I tried this one. I would have loved to see her give one of these lectures. The tone would have made it even better.
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BRILLIANT. Woolf is funny and smart and so damn on point. This didn't feel dated in the slightest, which does not say much for the progress we have made. If women don't have the advantage of a place and money to be creative, their creativity can't take place. Literature is as affected by gendered roles in society as any other undertaking. A woman may be as brilliant and imaginative as any man, but if she has no solitude or freedom, it cannot be expressed. Woolf lays out the problem in blunt and
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Ogni 25 gennaio celebriamo Virginia Woolf, amata scrittrice, saggista e femminista! In “A Room of One’s Own”, Virginia Woolf esplora lo spazio sia letterale che figurato per le donne scrittrici all’interno di una tradizione letteraria dominata dagli uomini.
Chi scrive è un uomo e posso confermare l’affermazione di Virginia Woolf secondo la quale per scrivere con successo bisogna avere una stanza tutta per sé. Non solo per le donne, ma anche per gli uomini …
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Chi scrive è un uomo e posso confermare l’affermazione di Virginia Woolf secondo la quale per scrivere con successo bisogna avere una stanza tutta per sé. Non solo per le donne, ma anche per gli uomini …
Il saggio di Woolf del 1928 ‘A Room of O ...more
DNF. This felt very rambly and not for me.
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