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On Feminism ideas in A Room of One’s Own “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”?Virginia Woolf, a pioneer of feminism, said in the very beginning of the book A Room of One’s Own—a book calls on the female to get rid of patriarchal control advisably and pursue their material and spiritual independence courageously, shows her feminism ideas obviously in this book. As an outstanding English novelist and important precursor of modern feminist literary criticism of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf is famous for her unique female consciousness which runs through the whole literary works. She expressed her malcontent feelings with sharp style of writing, especially in A Room of One’s Own, which also embodied her unique female consciousness and advanced feminist ideas. A Room of One’s Own, as a critical work that came about from a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, is about the theme—woman and fiction, and is one of Woolf’s most accessible works, which has also been considered as the first major work on feminist literary and has been discussed and argued by many feminists. Depending on her own life and experiences, Woolf held that “a room of her own” is a prerequisite for a woman who is going to take writing as an occupation. Getting “a room of one’ own” is a sign that one has got a special right. If a woman wants to write fiction, she must have “a room of her own” and five hundred pounds a year. Women also should get rid of the control of androcentrism and pursue their own values. In addition to the material and spiritual independence, Woolf expressed an idea of androgynous theory. Only through the androgyny, the male and female can live in harmony and one can create excellent works. She thought that full maleness and femaleness are dangerous and incomplete. Androgyny is the idea of harmonious man-woman relationship. This idea was put forward creatively and brilliantly that disc