Meg 🪷🦢’s Reviews > A Room of One’s Own > Status Update

lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

the history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting than perhaps the story of that emancipation itself.

as it was, what could bind, tame or civilise for human use that wild, generous, untutored intelligence?

she should have had a microscope put in her hand. she should have been taught to look at the stars and reason scientifically. her wits were turned with solitude and freedom.

i love how she describes the world around her, what really stood out to me was her take on why we cherish old works of art more than the new. this is because the antiquated brings a sense of familiarity while the modern does not. that’s why it feels like all the greats are gone, when instead new greats are being born.

“alas on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating”