Alice Walker And Virginia Woolf's

Women’s rights were a big thing back in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker are two women with two views that somewhat agree about this situation, with the goal of finding a way to use the limited resources that they have for the good of others. They particularly use women of their time-frame as the major examples in their essays. But it all comes down to this. Walker in her essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” agrees with Woolf that women’s abilities and resources of materials was scarce, but Walker in a way challenges Woolf’s writing of “In Search of a Room of One’s Own” that women in her day where able to use them more efficiently than in Woolf’s day with her mother’s garden. Through this comparison and consideration, we’ll look at the views of both Woolf and Walker and whether Walker is agree with Woolf or challenging what Woolf is trying to say. Woolf and Walker agree that there were hard times for women. Woolf thinks that women
Woolf goes on to say that “it would be ambitious beyond my daring to suggest to the students of those famous colleges that they should re-write history, though I won that it often seems a little queer as it is, unreal, lop-sided; but why should they not add a supplement to history? calling it, of course, by some inconspicuous name so that women might figure there without impropriety?” (Woolf 457). Woolf was referring to the students from the famous colleges of Girton and Newnham in this text. Walker has an ‘answer so simple that many of us have spent years discovering it. We have constantly looked high, when we should have looked high – and low” (Walker 435). It appears that we have looked everywhere expect between the lines, or the cracks, and have missed what we truly should be looking for. They both agree that we have missed something. It has, unfortunately, made women’s lives much harder in the