What does a woman need to become a writer? In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf explores this question with remarkable clarity, wit, and intellectual freedom. Drawing on history, literature, and her own observations, Woolf examines the social and economic barriers that have long limited women’s opportunities to write, study, and create. At the heart of the book is Woolf’s now-famous argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Yet her ...

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxicabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” ...