“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, A Room of One’s Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities.

Illustrating the importance of woman’s literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare, a Room of One’s Own encourages women to rise above patriarchal monotony and set a unique literary tradition of their own.

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929).

Top Quotes from A Room of One's Own

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“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.”

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

“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.”

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

“All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”