Una stanza tutta per sé

Every woman should read this. Yes, everyone who told me that, you were absolutely right. It is a little book, but it's quite likely to revitalize you. How many 113 page books and/or hour long lectures (the original format of this text) can say that? This is Woolf's Damn The Man book. It is of course Leggi tutto

sometimes i forget people from old times could also be funny. but this... this book is brilliant and witty. the fact that it was once delivered as a speech is unreal. imagine hearing this spoken to you!!! i would have to lay on the ground at the 17% mark. no way my body is holding me up through these Leggi tutto

Considered one of the first feminist essay, this book brings up an interesting argument. A woman could not have written Shakespeare's work because she would have needed "a room of her own". Essentially, an education, the capacity to travel the world and the independence needed to do so. She goes on

Fascinating and influential feminist theories but slow and tiresome in getting to the point

‘there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.’ i am so, so, so grateful as a woman to live in a time where my education is an expectation and my creativity is encouraged. i try to imagine myself 100 years in the past and i hope i would be the kind of woman wool Leggi tutto

‘ A woman, ’ wrote Virginia Woolf, ‘ must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ’ This line from Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s Own has become a canonical statement in the history of feminist thought in a text much celebrated and debated, heralded as an important precursor to second Leggi tutto