On Having A Room of One’s Own, and Not a Cell

Tara Heavey
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read
Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash

A woman must have money and a room of her own is she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf

There was a time, especially when my children were younger, when I was a little jealous of people in prison. I thought that a spell in solitary confinement sounded as appealing as a two week holiday in the sun. As long as I had limitless paper and pens. I could write my own “War and Peace” in no…

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