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A room of Ones own

"for anyone who writes to think of their sex (Woolf 104)."Woolf takes over for her narrator, and begins to think about the objections people may raise to the character's "failings." She has not offered any comments about the merits of the two sexes as writers. This is what the artist must avoid. One might object, "that I have made too much of the importance of material things," when we expect great minds and art to rise above their circumstances (Woolf 108). But the facts show that the odds are against any who has no money or education. She sums up her argument: "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years, but from the beginning of time. Women, then, have not had a chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own." Good writing is good for society. She urges women to write not only fiction, but books of all kinds, "for books have a way of influencing each other (Woolf 110)." She urges them to remember their advantages, their unwritten history, and to see their own work as part of the preparation for future women writers.Woolf ends the fictional narrator with the essay on "Women and Fiction" still unwritten; the point has been to show the thought process behind her theory that fictional writing requires a private income and a private room, and that the process has become the substance of the essay itself. It is a story that promises to continue (Roseman 23).All of the above bolded words are continuous examples that women were not equal to men in any way. Even if you gave them their own sitting room they still would be prejudged. Men did not make anything for women. They held much power over women. Women differ greatly from men in the many ways that Woolf has demonstrated. I wouldn't say that women are better but they are not hung up on holding power as men are. I believe that...

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