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A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1929
Pages
Pages 130

Asked to lecture on women and fiction, a writer answers that a woman needs money and a room of her own, and imagines the ruin that would have met a sister of Shakespeare with equal genius.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

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