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Virginia Woolf’s Profession for Women is a paper in which she talks of the cliché stereotypical woman who affected her writing.  Now when “stereotypical” is stated, it means women who would cook, clean, and make huge efforts to make their husbands happy.  She speaks about writing reviews for men’s articles and men’s papers, and how the angel, or the stereotypical woman, would write a good review in order to please the man, and make him happy.  If she decides to be a successful, independent woman, she must kill off this angel in order to survive in a “man’s world.”  Ironically, she states this angel is dead, but that is in just her case.  Every woman has the angel inside herself,  which she must kill in order to be independent and stray away from man’s world…stick it to the man, if you will.  Once the angel is dead though, it can come back.  Within each young woman the angel lives on, telling her how proper Victorian-age women should act.  Woolf makes it seem that being a mother, someone who is compassionate, loving and caring, is like being trapped.  Another sort of angel women must deal with.  But within the world’s eyes mothers are looked up to and though to be the most independent, women of the world.  If you can successfully raise a child, there are few things you cannot do.  Woolf seems to believe that the way out of this entrapment, is to terminate these stereotypes, and kill the angels, when many times those are not necessarily looked down upon as much as she believes.