Woolf's A Room of One's Own had been published in 1929 and she reminded some 200 young women, "well dressed keen & often beautiful", that they were "practising for the first time in history I know not how many different professions... you have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men".
"It's nice to be in a winning locker room".
Timlin stopped, then smiled ever so slightly at the sight of his winning locker room.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The glummest face in the winning locker room last Sunday belonged to Brandon Jacobs.
"In a winning changing room there are pictures galore, the boys having beers together, Billy Vunipola singing a bit of Backstreet Boys.
He stood afterward in the winning locker room, his dress shirt untucked, his tie loosened, his appearance disheveled, as if he had just played.
But amid the crisp white celebratory T-shirts and sweaty hugs, an elephant still loomed in the winning locker room on Monday night.
"This is the most somber winning locker room you'll ever see," defensive tackle Barry Cofield said as he sat at his locker, frowning.
"Nobody — nobody — picked us to be in the playoffs this year," John Mara, the Giants co-owner and president, said in the din of the winning locker room.
Just about everybody in the official party — family members surely included — had memories of a man who could weep in a winning locker room but fire a key employee, and sometimes actually go through with it.
In the sublime silence of the Patriots' winning locker room, the quarterback was most likely already thinking about what he and his team could do to make sure they stay on top again next year.
