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This reads as a portrait of emotional labor, the slow pressure of being the one everyone turns to. It can be taken to mean that care, especially in domestic life, can leave a person feeling absorbent and overfilled, less like an individual than a receptacle for other people’s needs. It lands in a moment when someone is expected to hold a family together while carrying their own fatigue.
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About Virginia Woolf
English writer, 20th-century modernist author
Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a major modernist author of the 20th century. She is especially known for helping to pioneer stream of consciousness narration in fiction. Her work helped shape modern literature through its formal experimentation and attention to inner thought. She is remembered above all for the narrative technique she helped develop, which became influential in later writing.
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Books by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
An essay on women and writing.