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A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

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Sep 19, 2017 Claire rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It is with sadness I read this excellent book. Virginia Woolfe’s novel did not lose any of the power it once must have had, little has changed since then.
In this book she explains why women are so seldom found among the big writers.. ‘ one needs a room of one’s own and 500 pound a year’ As of today way to few women have the same opportunities as men do. What strikes me even more in this book was the plea to think equal, not to divide into male/female thoughts, but to let both sides in, in think ...more

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Jul 06, 2022 adele rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ehrtbm-book-group, nonfiction, psychology-philosophy

Here’s the thing… I did not enjoy my time reading this book. I do like some of the takeaways, though. If she had condensed this into 30 some-odd pages and concisely said what she wanted to say, I’d be all over that. But she takes such seemingly random (and tiresome) roundabout ways of getting to her point that by the time we arrived at it I was bleary-eyed and skimming. A highlighter and pen really helped because now I can go back and reference the interesting things she said and not have to mud ...more

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