How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Without that power [to magnify men] probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown. (2.12)
Is Woolf being sarcastic here about the "glories of all our wars"? It seems to take both men and women to make a civilization and wage war.
Quote #5
Walk through the Admiralty Arch (I had reached that monument), or any other avenue given up to trophies and cannon, and reflect upon the kind of glory celebrated there. (2.14)
Why do we have monuments to wars, anyway? London is pretty important in A Room of One's Own, so it's interesting that it's filled with monuments to violent men and the wars waged by them.
Quote #6
At the same time, on the other side of Europe, there was a young man living freely with this gipsy or with that great lady; going to the wars; picking up unhindered and uncensored all that varied experience of human life which served him so splendidly when he came to write his books. (4.28)
Here, war is just another kind of experience. We're seeing that writers don't just need their own rooms to work in—they've got to get out of them once in a while, too. So if women are barred from huge chunks of human experience, how can they ever write well?