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‘The Angel in the House’ was the part of herself that told her she was selfish and wrong to want to be a writer and to express her opinion. The Angel in the House is a martyr who devotes herself to her household and has no wants or needs of her own. ‘If there was a chicken, she took the leg. If there was a draught she sat in it.’

Later on, in 1931, Woolf gave a speech to a women’s group entitled ‘Professions for Women’, which was to be a sequel to A Room of One’s Own. It was later published in The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. In that speech she talked about a part of herself that she had had to cut off in order to survive: it was the self-deprecating, self-sacrificin

—Think about something you would like to share in a speech that is special to you or makes you feel vulnerable. Do you have an insecurity that you have improved upon? What is the problem you have overcome? What’s the life challenge that other people struggle with that you have also struggled with? Make a list of ten ideas. Keep them to yourself for