Status Updates From Una stanza tutta per sé

“La vida entra en conflicto con una cosa que no es la vida. Pero como, en parte, es vida, lo juzgamos como vida”

she will go from having rlly prescient and progressive takes to calling someone the f slur ten sentences later so now im lowk terrified to flip the page but also i can't stop reading

"A woman must have money and room of one's own to write fiction." Omg she said the thing

This is why I always advocate for reading the foreword: Woolf is concerned with the fate of women of genius, not with that of ordinary women; her plea is that we create a world in which Shakespeare's sister might survive her gift, not one in which a miner's wife can have her rights to property; her passion is for literature, not for universal justice.