The point in which the whole novel focus on is that every woman needs a space to herself or quoting the title “ A Room of One’s Own”, were a woman can become a writer being uninterrupted and use her own time and space. During Woolf’s time no woman can even dream with this kind of luxury, they were kept apart from intellectual activities and suffer as a result of this. Then Woolf who is concerned about this uses the idea of the room as a symbol of the need of privacy, spare time, economical independence and many other components of the gender inequality suffered by females. Not until each of these inequalities got rectified women will be treated as equal to men by society.
<<Life for both sexes—and I look at them, shouldering their way along the pavement—is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion that we are, it calls for confidence in oneself.>>
This argument asserts the subordination received by women as an unequal treatment that reinforced men self-confidence as leaders. This did end up in a lack of confidence in women who consider themselves inferior in almost any task. Nevertheless she also highlights that women keep writing even with this lacking in confidence so women are valiant even if they feel worried about their relevance in society.
As an illustration for her point, the narrator creates the imaginary twin sister of William Shakespeare and calls her Judith and she reproduces Virginia’s Woolf life. Judith has to stay at home because her brother is the one sent to school, and while he gets recognition in school and gets encouraged by his family and society, just as what happened to Mrs. Woolf, Judith felt out of place and got underestimated by society.
The tragic figure of Judith proves that no matters how talented a woman was, she could have never achieved the success reached by a man. Talent was essential, but since women were treated unequally, no matters how gifted she was cause no many opportunities will be offered to her.
It is emphasized by the narrator during the whole text that women were mistreated in this very moment and that is why they have produced less impressive works than men.
That women see and feel and value differently than men is one of biggest Woolf’s statements, and she justifies that because of this they also write differently, and it is because women are unique. Then being based on their life experience women can write properly and perfectly.
“if only Mrs. Seton and her mother and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money and had left their money for the education of their daughters”.
Then this feeling of inferiority suffered by women is the one that makes impossible for them to set free and become complete and powerful. When society can rely on women and allow them to have the same opportunities as men, the first step of the path will be accomplished.
Henceforth what Woolf wanted to explain with feminism is all expressed in the book, even many risky concepts that were not accepted in her time and are still debated nowadays.