How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I am going to develop in your presence as fully and freely as I can the train of thought that led me to think [that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction]. (1.1)
Woolf puts her money where her mouth is: she's not just going to tell us that it's important to try to think and write as freely as possible, she's going to show us, too.
Quote #2
That collar I had spoken of, women and fiction, the need of coming to some conclusion on a subject that raises all sorts of prejudices and passions, bowed my head to the ground. (1.2)
Woolf/Beton is really bummed that she has to have to try to write about something so divisive. It seems just the opposite of the free-flowing thought that Woolf thinks is so important. (Good thing she lived before Internet trolls.)
Quote #3
I pushed into the garden, for, unwisely, the door was left open and no beadles seemed to be about [...] The gardens of Fernham lay before me in the spring twilight, wild and open. (1.25)
Fernham's "wild and open" gardens seem sexy, somehow, don't they? Woolf spends all this time telling us how awful Fernham is, but here it seems really beautiful. Maybe there's something nice about being basically ignored and not taken seriously.