For centuries, women have sought out to endow oneself and society; to implode fiction; to create clearinghouses of ideas without the interference of man. Alas, the glass ceiling is broke; the door unlocked. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf skillfully, using the technique of stream of consciousness, discusses the problems of women writers. The journey she reveals illuminates our own journeys. Through the powerful use of stylistic techniques, Woolf illustrates insightful views towards male superiority, feminism, and liberation, as well as the historic barriers that prevented women from pursuing writing careers. Woolf expresses these views in a convincing, symbolic and poetic manner. Her wit and well-informed optimism bars against stupidity and prejudice. Virginia Woolf takes one on an erudite walk through a conversational novel that is lively, and enlightening.
             Male superiority is a profound, psychological and physical hindrance to the prevalence of women. Historically, women were mentally, morally, and physically inferior to men. Woolf carefully demonstrates this through a poetic prose composed by Lady Winchilsea.
             How are we fallen! Fallen by mistaken rules, and education's more than Nature's fools; debarred from all improvements of the mind, and to be dull, expected and designed; and if someone would soar above the rest, with warmer fancy, and ambition pressed, so strong the opposing faction still appears...My lines decried, and my employment thought an useless folly or presumptuous fault...
             (Woolf A Room of One's Own 59)
             Woolf clearly describes the injustice towards women. She also uses this idea of inferiority within the following symbolic passage: "...the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating." (Woolf A Room... 7) Convincingly, Woolf shows that once women are freed from male superiority, women ...