HW 24: My Room Of Two

According to Virginia Woolf, in order for a woman to write fiction or any type of writing for that matter, they must be educated, have money, and most importantly a room of their own. When speaking about Mary Carmichael and her first book, Life’s Adventure, she states “ give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind and leave out half that she now puts in, and she will write a better book one of these days.”(Woolf 94). As a college student most people do not have a room of their own. I am no different from any other woman that shares a room on campus. Not having a room of my own makes completing my schoolwork on time very difficult. My roommate tends to listen to death metal while I am working and as you can imagine it is very hard to focus. As Virginia says, “five hundred a year stands for the power to contemplate, that a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself, still you may say that the mind should rise above such things.”(Woolf 106). This means that no matter what you should be able to bring your mind above what is not present and achieve what you thought was not possible before.