"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Ivy crawling over brick. Echoes in the library. A heavy stack of hardcovers.

It was 1928 when Virginia Woolf made her groundbreaking but incredibly practical statement about women’s needs for autonomy in order to be creative and pursue their ambitions. She read her lecture at the University of Cambridge, which she critiques in the essay as closed off to women in both information, networks, and even physical spaces like libraries and common rooms.

Today, the patriarchal structures that shrink women’s intellects and hush their voices are still very much at work. This pendant necklace, with its engraving of “money and a room of her own” translated to Latin, is a tongue-and-cheek reclamation of men’s intellectual language as a reminder of the female voice’s power.