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A review by ilovegravy
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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.”