Virginia Wolf

Virginia Wolf was a women who seemed to try to find herself through her writing. She struggled with refrained from normal society. She was feminist and wrote about her struggle with nonconformity. In "The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection", Ms. Woolf writes,

“One could not help looking, that summer afternoon, in the long glass that hung outside in the hall. Chance had so arranged it. From the depths of the sofa in the drawing-room one could see reflected in the Italian glass not only the marble-topped table opposite, but a stretch of the garden beyond. One could see a long grass path leading between banks of tall flowers until, slicing off an able, the gold rim cut it off. “ (p. 1224-1225)

Wolf is expressing her wish to go beyond the norm of her society and live the life at which she pleases. The cut off of which she speaks is the distant goal to which she seeks to obtain. She understands the law of her nation but wants the masses to see the individuality at which she wishes to obtain.
Many individuals such as MLK have seeked to help others virtually understand the imbalance to which they live their lives. They see beyond the present, and seek to uphold the future. Wolf understands that her gender sets her back in certain social areas and wants the public to embrace the ideals and ambitions she wants the women of her country to be able to obtain.