Virginia Woolf was an English writer in the twentieth century who was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, was born in India then later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her mother was also a nurse and had written a book about the profession. At the age of 13, her mother died. Woolf had her first nervous breakdown soon after her mother died. She called it “the greatest disaster that could ever happen.” Her mother’s death nearly killed Sir Leslie Stephen (Woolf’s father). His grieving was so intense, demonstrative, and so hyperbolic that it affected his children deeply. Stella (Woolf’s sister), had fallen into the role of mother since both Vanessa and Woolf were still young and since Sir Leslie was hopeless. Feminist writer, Virginia Woolf, …show more content…
In her eyes, in order to grow, we need to some gender bending – we need to seek experiences that blur what it means to be a “real man” or “real woman.” She thought the only way we could end war was by rethinking the habit of pitting sex against sex; all the claiming and impudent inferiority belonged to private school stage of human existence where there are sides, and its necessary to beat another side, and of the utmost importance, to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster, a highly ornamental pot. She desperately wished to raise the status of women in her society. Women didn’t have freedom, especially freedom of spirit, because they didn’t have control of their own income. “Women have always been poor,” she cried. Not for just two hundred years but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry. Women not only need dignity, but also equal rights to