A Room of One's Own

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

True? If so, I can say that writing fiction is not in my future; but, when money is seen as the power to contemplate, and a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself.....then yes, this statement is as true today as it was for Virginia Woolf in 1929. Although Woolf was writing in a time when women writer's did not have nearly as much freedom as men, her words still resonate in the mind of any aspiring writer:

"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. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison."


more to come when I'm not so tired...