"If only Mrs Seeton and her mother and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money and had left their money, like their fathers and their grandfathers before them, to found fellowships and lectureships and prizes and scholarships appropriated to the use of their own sex…we might have looked forward without undue confidence to a pleasant and honourable lifetime spent in the shelter of one of the liberally endowed professions…[and not] in scorn at the reprehensible poverty of our sex."
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own.
