Virginia Woolf's ambitious work A Room of One's Own addresses many significant questions regarding the history and culture of women's writing and attempts to document the conditions that women had to endure to writing, juxtaposing these with his vision of the ideal conditions for the creation of literature. Woolf's extensive essay has endured and proven to be a viable and pioneering feminist work, but the wide range of ideas and topics Woolf explores leaves her piece open to criticism over some concepts that appear to contradict each other. This observation can be explained very satisfactorily by the critic Ellen Bayuk Rosenman, who states that "the essay does not aspire to the strict coherence of a puzzle, composed of perfectly fitted pieces in which there are no empty spaces and nothing remains... The Woolf's essay has proved so enduring because it often contradicts itself” (13). At the end of her essay Woolf advances the idea that the "androgynous mind" must be the apotheosis of all perspectives in writing; which she conveys contradicts not only the previous evidence she expressed, but also diminishes the value of the woman as a significant contributor to the world of literature and discredits the woman's ability to write while attempting to praise and inspire us Virginia Woolf uses A Room of One's Own as platform to discuss past and current social inequalities that exist in the realm 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 the analysis of these problems and her own life experiences, Woolf comes to the conclusion that becomes the basis for this essay... middle of paper...(13), brilliantly exposes the ambiguity present throughout Woolf's book . wise. And Woolf herself provides the most eloquent contradiction of the piece when she exhorts: "It is much more important to be yourself than anything else. Don't dream of influencing other people, I would say, if you knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves"( 2211). 'Thinking about things in themselves' in the most literal sense would mean granting every perception, every attitude, every emotion the same stature in one's mind and in the writing process. Perhaps it is not neglecting one's gender that will make the form highest literary, but rather to allow the combination of experience and emotion, spirituality and materialism, belief and conjecture, to blend into a beautiful mass of ideas which will truly be a reflection of the author in his fullest consciousness.