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It was a small but interesting read. It was my first book from Virginia Woolf and I have to say it was inspiring. It is curious to see how storytelling is such an easy thing to do but the act of writing in itself turns something so beautiful into an objectifying topic. The author does an amazing job describing how the different writers behave not only taking their sex into account but the time period and the probability of their status quo in the society. She illustrates possible lives of women who wrote their novels and helps us, the reader, visualize their hardships. I remember from when I was in English Literature A level we discussed how the time period really affected the writers but I think this book opened my eyes to a new degree. I remember studying Margaret Atwood and F.Scott Fitzgerald but these were women from the beginning. They are women who were not allowed to even have a space for themselves to write like their husbands or male family members had in their offices or priv...

 Don't let it's small size fool you, the story may look like a quick read but it sure will make you think. Women in greek mythology have a variety of adjectives associated to them, but one that is consistant is temptation. Women are seen as the most tempting prize in the world. Na achievement to keep hidden from the world and in this case even from themselves. Galatea tells the tale about a woman that is brought to life from stone to the request of a sculptor to the gods. He requests his creation to be brought to life and the goddess of love Aphrodite grants his desire, however this act has it's consequences. Galatea gains life but it wins desires, worries, and her own mind and personality. The couple eventually gain a daughter with the mother's beauty and a curious mind however as the time passes, the sculptor gets jealous of every eye that sets on his beautiful wife, and one time that she tries to run away he locks her up in a hospital and from then on, he visits her ...

 This books is one of those experiences that sometimes you have to look around and pray that you haven't entered the world of the book.  While I was reading I realise the irony of certain situations and how history repeats itself alongside so many diferent cycles. The cycle of womanhood and motherhood are not the same as fatherhood and manhood however they are a cycle, and with that it means they share an ending and a beginning.  Animal farm made me think of the injustices in the labour department but then I saw how the book never talked about what was going on behind the walls, what they were up to that the others could not actually see, how they were learning not only developing skills in the world of humankind but also the technique to manipulate their fellow comrades. The manipulation upon the mind makes the reader go back to check oon what was previously said. I myself had to go back and read their 6 commandments to see if it was really true what had been said. I que...