William’s Reviews > The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Two, 1912-1922 > Status Update

I write - read - write - read - from morning to night. For an hour I wet myself on the high road - back to tea - Shakespeare, Joyce - and so on. It is a very exciting life, entirely devoid of human beings. But, as you say, leads to damned dull letters.

29 January 2018, in letter to sister Vanessa...
"How are you? Influenza, [Dr] Craig told me, poisons the nervous system, and nourishment is the only way to get rid of it. Do take milk and ovaltine. I have 2 glasses a day."
Yikes!

"I become steadily more feminist, owing to the Times, which I read at breakfast and wonder how this preposterous masculine fiction [the war] keeps going a day longer - without some vigorous young woman pulling us together and marching through it - do you see any sense in it?"

I agree. It's time to put women in charge. People are people, and you have your good and bad but come on; men have screwed things up so much.