s a human being, but she feels much freer to be herself, she adds philosophically. In her closing remarks, Woolf encourages the professionals she is addressing to find their own obstacles and talk about them with friends and family so that they might, through expression, make it easier to defeat the obstacles (237).
John Stuart Mill writes similarly about the role of women in his essay, "The Subjection of Women." Mill finds it odd that only princesses are allowed to carry out their interest in politics while normal women are not "allowed the same range of interests and freedom of development as men" (Mill 219). Mill argues from his late nineteenth century persp
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