Room Of One's Own

Question 1

The Establishment - continues to bar and hinder women

Answer 1

he was a Beadle; I was a woman. This was the turf; there was the path

Question 2

The Establishment - rejecting the limits put upon women

Answer 2

Lock up your libraries if you like but there is mo gate, no lock, no bolt you can set upon the freedom of my mind

Question 3

The Establishment - ignores women

Answer 3

It is not only that they celebrate male virtues, enforce male values and describe the world of men

Question 4

The Establishment - excluded from history / invisible

Answer 4

Why should they not add a supplement to history, calling it of course by some inconspicuous name so that women might figure there without impropriety

Question 5

The Establishment - psychological effect on women

Answer 5

You cannot do this, you are incapable of doing that

Question 6

Poverty - everything belongs to men X2 & symbol of captivity and denied opportunity ~ link to Marxism

Answer 6

to earn money was impossible for them

The law denied them the right to posses what money they earned

Question 7

Poverty - Change = hope

Answer 7

Whenever I change a ten-shilling note a little of that rust and corrosion is rubbed off.

Question 8

Poverty - money = stepping stone to intellectual freedom

Answer 8

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things

Question 9

Poverty - link to Marxism

Answer 9

Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes

Question 10

Poverty - change depends on money metaphor

Answer 10

the grasses waved and the swine rootled

Yet through

Gold and silver

Oxbridge now stands

Question 11

Gender Stereotypes - People aren’t strictly men and women

Answer 11

A great mind is androgynous

Question 12

Gender Stereotypes - work together to create

Answer 12

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished

Question 13

Gender Stereotypes - problem is hierarchy

Answer 13

He was concerned not with their inferiority but with his own superiority.

Question 14

Gender Stereotypes - valuing different jobs

Answer 14

Is the charwoman who has brought up children of less value to the world than the barrister who has made a hundred thousand pounds

Question 15

Gender Stereotypes - Fiction VS reality

Answer 15

Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant.

Question 16

Restrictions being in and out

Answer 16

I thought about the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in

Question 17

Writings on women

Answer 17

light-fingered novelists, young men who have the MA degree, men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women

Question 18

Strength of Money

Answer 18

No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

Question 19

Newspaper

Answer 19

He left millions to charities and colleges that were ruled by himself. He suspended the film actress in mid-air….with the exception of the fog he seemed to control everything

Question 20

Closing Line

Answer 20

I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that to work even in poverty and obscurity is worthwhile