Room Of One's Own Flashcards
The Establishment - continues to bar and hinder women
he was a Beadle; I was a woman. This was the turf; there was the path
The Establishment - rejecting the limits put upon women
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
The Establishment - ignores women
It is not only that they celebrate male virtues, enforce male values and describe the world of men
The Establishment - excluded from history / invisible
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
The Establishment - psychological effect on women
You cannot do this, you are incapable of doing that
Poverty - everything belongs to men X2 & symbol of captivity and denied opportunity ~ link to Marxism
to earn money was impossible for them
The law denied them the right to posses what money they earned
Poverty - Change = hope
Whenever I change a ten-shilling note a little of that rust and corrosion is rubbed off.
Poverty - money = stepping stone to intellectual freedom
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things
Poverty - link to Marxism
Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes
Poverty - change depends on money metaphor
the grasses waved and the swine rootled
Yet through
Gold and silver
Oxbridge now stands
Gender Stereotypes - People aren’t strictly men and women
A great mind is androgynous
Gender Stereotypes - work together to create
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished
Gender Stereotypes - problem is hierarchy
He was concerned not with their inferiority but with his own superiority.
Gender Stereotypes - valuing different jobs
Is the charwoman who has brought up children of less value to the world than the barrister who has made a hundred thousand pounds
Gender Stereotypes - Fiction VS reality
Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant.
Restrictions being in and out
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
Writings on women
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
Strength of Money
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.
Newspaper
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
Closing Line
I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that to work even in poverty and obscurity is worthwhile
