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What does it mean to have a room of one’s own?

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From Paige Reddington💌 The material room of one’s own Virginia Woolf famously writes in A Room of One’s Own: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” (1). I always pictured this in the most literal sense. I imagined myself living in a room filled with natural light, a desk in the corner with a view that allowed me to people watch, and of course, a bookshelf filled with inspiration. After I received my bachelor’s degree, I was torn between two paths: pursuing a literary or writing career and continuing to be broke, or going into a more lucrative field and…

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