"Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister"

I enjoyed reading the story “Thinking about Shakespeare’s Sister”.  I thought Woolf gave a very good perspective to how life was and how women were portrayed in the earlier centuries.  Woolf writes, “ For it needs little  skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so that tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she such have lost her health and sanity to a certainty. “ I liked this passage because I believe it paints an image of how limited women were back then and could not express or even talk about their talents or passions. Like so many others I wonder how many great pieces of art were produced by women that took on a pen name of a man or had a man took credit for her work. She writes that in the time of Shakespeare, women would not have been granted to go to school or even choose her husband.  It’s interesting to reading passages written in the 1929’s and comparing it to a passage wrote in the 1970’s. It’s interesting to look at the two passages and see how there are still similarities in how women were limited to what they could do and how things have changed in fifty years.  Now we have the opportunities to go to school, express talents, vote, choose to marry who we wish and many more opportunities.  Reading statements and passages like this make me feel fortunate to have the opportunities that we do today.