It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of her children, whether she had money of her own, if seh had a room to herself, whether seh had help in bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the house works was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and the experience of life made possible to the ordinary woamn that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
Virginia Woolf
1882 - 1941
