QUOTES
FROM
A ROOM OF ONE’S
OWN
(1928):
“A woman
must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
A Room
of One’s Own – Chapter 1, p. 4
“The human
frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not
contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million
years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think
well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
A Room
of One’s Own – Chapter 1, p. 18
“Have you
any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?
Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are,
perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”
A Room
of One’s Own – Chapter 2, p. 26
“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.”
A Room
of One’s Own – Chapter 2, p. 35
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond
reason the opinions of others.”
A Room of One’s Own
– Chapter 3, p. 58
“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.”
A Room of One’s Own – Chapter 4, p. 90
“I told
you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look
for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young — alas, she never
wrote a word... Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was
buried at the cross-roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many
other women who are not here to-night, for they are washing up the dishes and
putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they
are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in
the flesh.”
A
Room of One’s Own – Chapter 6, p. 117
