Virginia Woolf's ambitious work, A Room of One's Own, addresses many important questions regarding the history and culture of women's writing and attempts to document the conditions that women had to endure to write. , juxtaposing them with his vision of ideal conditions for literary creation. Woolf's long essay has endured and proven itself to be a pioneering and viable feminist work, but the wide range of ideas and arguments Woolf explores leaves her article open to criticism on certain concepts that seem to contradict each other. This observation can be most satisfactorily explained by critic Ellen Bayuk Rosenman, who states that "the essay does not aim at the strict coherence of a puzzle composed of perfectly interlocking pieces in which there is no space and where nothing remains...Woolf's essay has proven so enduring because it often contradicts itself"(13). Woolf advances the idea at the end of her essay that the "androgynous mind" must be the apotheosis of all perspectives of writing Yet this belief she conveys not only contradicts the earlier evidence she expressed, but also diminishes the woman's value as a significant contributor to the world of literature; and discredits the woman's ability to write as she attempts to praise and inspire us in A Room of One's Own as a platform to discuss the past and current social inequalities that exist in the field of women and literature. , attempting to document the negative effects that the patriarchal society of early 20th century England had on the female psyche. From her analysis of these issues and her own life experiences, Woolf arrives at the conclusion which becomes the basis of this essay......in the middle of the article......(13), expounds with brilliantly the ambiguity present throughout Woolf's work. essay. And Woolf herself provides the play's most telling contradiction when she insists: "It is far more important to be yourself than anything else." Don't dream of influencing others, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. "Think about things in themselves" (2211). "To think about things in themselves" in the most literal sense of the term would amount to granting to each perception, to each attitude, to each emotion an equal stature in the mind and in the process of writing Perhaps it is not neglecting one's own gender that will give rise to the highest form of literature, but rather allowing the combination of experience and emotion, of spirituality. and materialism, belief and conjecture, to merge into a beautiful mass of ideas which will truly be a reflection of the author in his most complete consciousness..