Virginia Woolf stresses and argues the fact that women need a room of their own, and their only way of achieving that is through money. Women’s creativity is hidden because of their lack of power and money. "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses..." This era during Woolf’s writing held the idea that women are here only to encourage men and nothing else. Woolf is tired of this idea. So few women have written successful poetry, because she believes that writing novels occur with frequent starts and stops. Women must endure interruptions while they work without a room of their own. A woman needs time and space to engage in her writing, a luxury most women did not have. This room symbolizes privacy, leisure, and independence-all of which women were not accustomed to and what sets men and women apart. So at the end of Woolf's ranting she means, without money, women and their art will always remain second to men.