A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.

the truer the facts the better the fiction—so

What effect has poverty on fiction?

Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.

Moreover, in a hundred years, I thought, reaching my own doorstep, women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions that were once denied them. The nursemaid will heave coal.

the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex;

as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters;