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A 6 page paper that is made up of 2 separate essays. The first essay is on what constitutes a phenomenal woman. The writer relates this topic to the work of Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, and Linda Pastan. The second essay is on what constitutes true love. This is related to works by Andy Rooney, Judith Viorst, Shakespeare and others. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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present images of women who suffer under patriarchys notions of who they are expected to be. These authors attest to the fact that women have historically been, and in many
ways, still are, under the influence of societal expectations that have to do with what is expected of them, rather than who they actually are as individuals. A phenomenal woman,
as evidenced by Maya Angelous poem of that title, is a woman who knows these expectations, acknowledges them, but manages the extraordinary achievement of becoming her own woman anyway. Virginia
Woolf describes the process that this involves in her essay Professions for Women. In this essay, Woolf describes how, as a young writer, her greatest obstacle to perfecting her
craft was to overcome a literary phantom who personified the societal expectations of her day, the "Angel in the House" (Woolf 193). The heroine of this poem is thoroughly selfless,
debasing, always putting the welfare of others ahead of herself. This phantom would be at Woolfs shoulder, whispering that she was only a young woman and the book she was
reviewing was by a famous man, "Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use all the arts and wiles of our sex" (Woolf 194). In short, this image personifies all of
the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and this feat she managed to accomplish. In
order to be a novelist, Woolf explains how she has endeavored to learn to tell "the truth about my own experiences as a body," which is more problematic (Woolf 196).
Nevertheless, Woolfs body of work attests to the fact that she also succeeded in this task. Rather than blithely accepting her designated role in life as a woman, Virginia Woolf
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