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Jan 12, 2017
Ashley
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it was amazing
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“All these infinitely obscure lives remain to be recorded, I said . . . and went on in thought through the streets of London feeling in imagination the pressure of dumbness, the accumulation of unrecorded life, whether from the women at the street corners with their arms akimbo . . . or from the violet-sellers and the match-sellers and the old crones stationed under doorways; or from drifting girls whose faces, like waves in sun and cloud, signal the coming of men and women. . . . Above all, you
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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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Nope. Should have stuck with my three strikes rule. She's just not for me.
I've tried to start this 4 times in the past 3 days. Twice in audio and twice in print... I just caught myself scrolling down trying to get to the point where her point begins, so I guess I'll throw in the towel. ...more
I've tried to start this 4 times in the past 3 days. Twice in audio and twice in print... I just caught myself scrolling down trying to get to the point where her point begins, so I guess I'll throw in the towel. ...more
I'm an experimental essay fan, and even then this was a little tedious to get through. Partly due to sentence structure, partly to the extreme amount of reference to titles and authors made.
I didn't agree with everything in here (not that I usually open books written nearly 100 years ago expecting to fully agree) but she still had some good and interesting insights. Part of me thinks it feels wrong judging her on modern day standards, but in all fairness she actively judges older writers in the ...more
I didn't agree with everything in here (not that I usually open books written nearly 100 years ago expecting to fully agree) but she still had some good and interesting insights. Part of me thinks it feels wrong judging her on modern day standards, but in all fairness she actively judges older writers in the ...more
Virginia Woolf at her best.
A timeless essay, written in her elegant prose, inspiring women to be all that they can be.
A timeless essay, written in her elegant prose, inspiring women to be all that they can be.
This writing is striking and gorgeous and the ideas are thoughtful. I had only just heard of Woolf and I know this is an essay but it made me want to read all her fiction because I burned with this book. It's going to stay with me because this is such an important historical perspective and great philosophy on women and art.
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Not your average read. I wonder what she would say today about women author's when one of the most famous writers of this age had to use her initials rather than her own name on her first book.
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Its always one Ive been meaning to read, and finally got to it. Its wonderfully written, with the history of women in society interwoven with the process of writing. She beautifully captures the many millions of our mothers and grandmothers whose stories have gone untold. This is definitely a text which has reverberated beyond its immediate audience into the consciousness of feminist thought and into mainstream culture. How influential this book has been on the standing of women and their status
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Aug 02, 2011
Rachel Campbell
marked it as to-read
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