Room and Money?

“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction…” Virginia Woolf also states “I am going to do what I can to show you how I arrived at this opinion about the room and the money”

My question is, Is she really talking about a room and money, what does the room and money really symbolize?

Virginia Woolf states that a woman needs a room and money a couple times in the text but what does it all really mean? She even gets angry at her mother for not leaving money for her “What had our mothers been doing then that they had no wealth to leave us? Powdering their noses? Looking in at shop windows?” But she probably wasn’t really angry with her because she knew” in the first place, to earn money was impossible for them, and in the second, had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what money they earned” I think that the room and money is something like education and power. It is possible that she referred to money in the first place because you need money to receive an education and the room symbolizes your accomplishment. Of course you need money to get a room but having these two items means that you are out of the house and in the real world. You can get a job and earn money and hope to have a better live and a good career. Woolf was fortunate enough that her aunt a pretty nice inheritance. So she is a little freer in making decisions, like she is right now traveling around to all these prestigious places and doing research and all kinds of stuff. I don’t know why but I have a feeling that she is talking about more then a room and money but I may be mistaken.