Status Updates From A Room of One's Own / Three...

"Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surpising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex - woman, that is to say - also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degreee; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women."

finished a room of one’s own

a room of one’s own:

“The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.”

Oh yeah ohhhh yeah

a room of one’s own:
“‘chloe liked olivia,’ i read. and then it struck me how immense a change was there. chloe liked olivia perhaps for the first time in literature. cleopatra did not like octavia.”

this is out of context but the entire section gave me chills this essay is genius. everyone ever should read it

“Women do not write books about men—a fact that I could not help welcome with relief, for if I had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could set pen to paper.”