Madi’s Reviews > A Room of One’s Own > Status Update

[…] that good books are desirable and that good writers, even if they show every variety of human depravity, are still good human beings.

‘This great book', 'this worthless book’, the same book […]. Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

“If a woman wrote, she would have to write in the common sitting-room.
And, as Miss Nightingale was so vehemently to complain, - women never have an half hour ... that they can call their own' - she was always interrupted.”

Girl…interrupted.

Holy run-on sentences Batman

“All these facts lie somewhere, presumably, in parish registers and account books; the life of the average Elizabethan woman must be scattered about somewhere, could one collect it and make a book of it.”

In fact such books do exist now! I read one earlier this year.