A Room of Ones Own
... just that physical place, but rather a place, and a sort of state of mind. The state of mind I am talking about is one which a person feels safe to cultivate their ideas, without fear of judgment on those ideas. I feel that Virginia Woolf speaks of “a room of one’s own” because in a physical room one can create, and nurture ideas alone without fear of judgment or rejection. I believe that this state of mind is really what is important in “a room of one’s own,” and social constructs of what a woman “should” do or be throughout history have been such that even when women could possibly have a physical “room of their own” they did not have that state of mind which I spoke of earlier. So as social constructs such as “women’s work” or whatever the classical idea of what women “should ...