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ilovegravy's review against another edition
4.0
We do indeed love Virginia for the brilliance of her ideas and keep on chanting quotes such as:
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; […]
But I think, the truest value of her writings quietly slips away and goes unnoticed amongst all that brilliance. It’s the indisputable and irresistible wit of the remarks right under the famous and now over-cited quotes such as the one right below the above:
“The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women', which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.”
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; […]
But I think, the truest value of her writings quietly slips away and goes unnoticed amongst all that brilliance. It’s the indisputable and irresistible wit of the remarks right under the famous and now over-cited quotes such as the one right below the above:
“The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to 'hate women', which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.”
aleyna99's review against another edition
emotional
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informative
inspiring
reflective
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4.75
charlottapeterson's review against another edition
challenging
informative
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3.75
krows_ink's review against another edition
reflective
3.0
well written and introspective. Although this piece is extremely outdated in my opinion. Furthermore, it’s also very obviously written from a white woman’s perspective.
While I cannot deny the impact money and time have on creation, and I do agree that having more of both would allow for more art to be written, I think that some of the better pieces I’ve written were written from poor women who did not have the education Woolf spoke of.
Anyways. I think this book was interesting, but I think a lot of these ideas should be contrasted to the writings of women of color and poor women.
While I cannot deny the impact money and time have on creation, and I do agree that having more of both would allow for more art to be written, I think that some of the better pieces I’ve written were written from poor women who did not have the education Woolf spoke of.
Anyways. I think this book was interesting, but I think a lot of these ideas should be contrasted to the writings of women of color and poor women.
thesimplereader's review against another edition
2.0
Ah.. so this book was extremely frustrating for me. It was a must-read for Written Composition at WJC. Very, very feminist. Now, don't get me wrong. I am all for women's rights and all that jazz. What I do not support is the victim attitude that often comes along with it. That attitude was the epitome of this book.
Yes, I understand it was a different time and things were much more difficult. However, you can either get up and make things better for yourself, or you can sit and wallow. Woolf wallowed.
Yes, I understand it was a different time and things were much more difficult. However, you can either get up and make things better for yourself, or you can sit and wallow. Woolf wallowed.