Women’s Rights
are Recent
1920
White women gain the right to vote.
1952
Asian American women gain the right to vote.
1965
Black women gain the right to vote.
1970
Women can file a no-fault divorce.
1972
Women can attend the same colleges as men (Title IX).
1974
Women can buy a home in their own name.
Women can apply for a loan in their own name.
Women can apply for a credit card in their own name.
Women could own a business in their own name.
1994
The Violence Against Women Act is signed into law, providing funding for programs that help victims of gender related violence.
2020
The Writing College was established, home of The Women’s Writing Institute.
The Liberated Woman
The root of human power is language. The woman who knows how to wield language is her own; she is liberated.
She is free from the tyranny of the crowd and avoids frivolous language; she decides who she wants to become, and why her becoming matters.
She does not wear the shackles of intellectual trends and fashions. She knows her own mind, and she has the verbal ability to express it in any situation with confidence and clarity. She knows how to value herself because she knows the living power of her words.
The ability to read and write was denied to women—as it was denied to many other classes of people. Why? Because reading and writing train the mind for freedom. Women are, and have been, denied the right to their freedom by denying these human rights.
Writing is simply the more permanent form of our thinking and speaking, the key power all elite education has always sought to instill. The deeply literate woman’s thoughts and speaking are informed, authentic, and full of her own flair.
A woman’s power in an AI age is rooted in language as the expression of her humanity, she speaks with living language because she knows a well-spoken word can cause a regime to fall and create a new world.
Alexandra Barylski, M.A.(Yale)
Founder & Director
The Institute
The Women’s Writing Institute teaches women that the root of individual power in the human is language. Learning how to speak, read, and write with depth and originality is the key to being a woman who articulates her self with coherence and consistency at any moment. Women who train with Alex:
gain the ability to quickly and accurately navigate complex information with intelligence and depth
harness the power of thousands of years of human knowledge through AI to their personal and professional advantage through logic training, expert synthesis, and deep analysis
discover the sound of their authentic voice
access a growing network of professional women
attend member-only events at Yale, Harvard, and Oxford
Testimony
“The Writing College not only taught me how to write, it taught me how to think about who I am in the world by learning to see people and situations around me using writing and editing as life skills.”
- Julie, HS Senior ’22
“I struggled with hearing my own voice as a young woman, but The Writing College helped me find it. Alex would often say things like: This is good, but general, anyone could write this argument, especially AI! She helped me develop my distinct writing personality and identify what I think and who I am as a person.”
- Kylie, HS Sophomore
“Our first session went so well, and Alex made me feel entirely at ease and had the perfect comments and questions to prompt me to deeper and more powerful observations of my own heart and mind.
She highlighted key moments of breakthrough in my thoughts and speech patterns, and I gained invaluable perspective from her real-time “verbal-drafting-and-editing” method.
The philosophical tools and techniques she used helped me access the truth, and express what felt unsayable. Thoughts came out that I didn't even realize I had or felt, and she gave me space to process and work through them.
I've learned so much about myself and have been given so many new, rich methods for cultivating my mind and emotions in such a short period of time. My growth is absolutely the result of TWC philosophy and the language skills TWC teaches to experience profound transformation.”
- Elizabeth C, NJ, local business co-owner and operator