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This reads as a sharp observation about the strain of marriage, where one person is expected to adapt to the other’s perspective. The line can be taken to mean that even intelligence does not spare a woman from the exhausting work of seeing through someone else’s eyes, and that this unequal effort is part of the sorrow. It lands in a discussion of compromise, emotional labor, or the quiet losses inside a relationship.
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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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A Room of One's Own
An essay on women and writing.