Book Review of ''A Room Of One's Own'' by Virginia Woolf

 Discussing a book after you are done reading it, is such a great experience, not only because as a reader you get excited to share your thoughts but also because of the different ideas and perspectives you get from others, and the points that you might have missed. So I felt the need to do that with the feminism books I am reading, as there are always these thoughts and point 

that I want to discuss with someone, and so I started a Feminism book club on my Instagram account. With a book to read and discuss together each month. January's pick was ''A Room Of One's Own'' by the renowned Virginia Woolf.

I have been longing to read this book for as long as I remember, so I was really happy that it was January's pick for the feminism book club.
Let me first start by talking about the language and the writing style. So the language also it had some difficult terms and words I didn't get, but I kind of liked how sophisticated it was. And about the writing style, well I don't think I am in a place to critique Woolf's writing by any means, but my experience as a reader, is that there were parts that I would get lost in, and there were parts that I just didn't get why they would have to be there, but again it was so well written.

The main idea of the book was about why isn't there that many female writers as males. and here of course comes the very famous sentence "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'' Woolf here points to the main reasons for that issue, which are; finical independences and a space for women not only physically but also psychologically. And she explain these points further in the text with some examples, and adds another points like education and social status for women.

The main points of the book wasn't just explaining why there aren't enough female writers, I found it to be fitting and applied for women in all fields, and all the obstacles, hardships and discrimination they face in society. And sadly nearly after century from this book, the reality is still the same for so many women with different degrees.

 “All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.”

Parts of the books I really liked were; when she mentioned couple of female writers and their work, the part where she talked about how women would write in men's way to be accepted, and here she talked about how each should have his/her way. 

 “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.”

To wrap up, now I get why it's one of the most important feminism books. I would really recommend reading it, you may find it a bit confusing at first but once you dive into it, you would get Woolf's points.

February pick for the feminism book club is ''Women, Race & Class" for Angela Y.Davis, if you want to read along.