According to Virginia Woolf, the things that a woman needs in order to successfully write are:
1. self-esteem and a clear goal for writing
3. financial security
4. a room to be alone
In A Room of One's Own, one of her non-fiction books, Virginia Woolf states that a woman needs certain things in order to be successful as a writer. First of all, she believed that a woman needed financial security, that is to say money, in order to be independent. Moreover, for her it was very important that a woman had a room of her own in order to focus exclusively in what she wanted to write. Furthermore, according to Virginia Woolf, self-esteem and a clear goal were also vital to create a good literary work. On the other hand, she considered that a husband and children were distractions to a woman that wanted to become a novelist.