Powerful Books About Writing, By Women Writers

The first book I ever read on women and writing was Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.  I remember being very excited (this was back in the late 1950's) that someone had put into words the difficulties facing women who wanted to become writers.

My strong sense of constraint certainly came from the beliefs I was raised with about women.  The amazing thing to me was that Woolf had  published her book in 1929 and the ideas and feelings in it were still true for me.

The even more amazing thing is that, although women are major writers now, so very many of us still struggle with feelings of guilt over making time for our own work a priority.