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[close] Virginia Woolf, a classic feminist writer, is talking about pain in this work - a common theme in many of her novels, including Mrs. Dalloway. I think it's relevant to feminist discourse because of the parallels between societal responses to (especially mental) illness (from which Woolf suffered) and societal responses towards victimization (Woolf was also a victim of sexual assault).