What is so special about Virginia Woolf? Her style? Her aesthetics? Her feminist voice? I would say a combination of all and particularly the fact that she dared to walk a path totally forbidden for the women of her era. And that was literary writing. She is mostly admired for her book-length essay A Room of One's Own, where she briefly states that a woman must have her own place and money in order to write fiction.
Find out her detailed biography here. Find out her quotes here. - Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. -Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. - Language is wine upon the lips.
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AuthorAntonia Tsaknaki: she lives and works in Thessaloniki as an English teacher, translator, exams coach, proofreader. Her hobbies are literature, theater and linguistics. She is obsessed with commas and detests greeklish, since it upsets both languages and cause her eyes great pain! Archives
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