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ch 2:
- narrator goes to library to satiate questions about women and fiction
- lack of works written by women, but so many women in fiction written by men
- professor’s statement about the inferiority of women - men’s desire to preserve male superiority at the expense of women
- difficult of owning wealth as a woman, mostly from inheritance
- ends with vision of no gender-based division of labour for the future

chapter 1 main points:
- narratively describes the author’s day of wandering around campus & attending a luncheon and dinner
- author gets told by security on campus to walk on the proper path/ can’t enter library
- contrast in atmosphere at gatherings before vs after the war - ex: romance and poetry expressed differently
- ends with author discussing and thinking about how women are unable to own their wealth

in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.”

literally GASPED and said "DAMN" out loud. VIRGINIA.

A very queer composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction;

"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various, heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact…she was locked up, beaten and flung around the room....

she actually went OFF

rip virginia woolf u would have loved to see women in STEM

OH SHE’S GAGGING THE MALE SPECIES SOOOOOO GOOD RNNNN SHE DIDNT HAVE TO GO THAT HARD BUT SHE DID THAT FOR US