If we live for another century – I am talking about collective life, which is true life, and not about the small lives we live individually – and we have five hundred pounds a year and a room of our own for each one; if we get used to having the freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the shared living room and see people not always in the context of one another’s relationships but in relation to reality; as well as the sky and the trees or anything as it really is…

If we face the fact, because it is a fact, that there is no arm to hold on to, but that we proceed alone and that our relationship is with the world of reality and not with the world of men and women, then there will be the opportunity and the dead poetess who was Shakespeare's sister will reclaim the body she has sacrificed so many times.

A landmark book for women's emancipation, a revolutionary text from the iconic British author.