Finally, Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) reminds us that progress needs infrastructure—time, space, money, and psychological safety. The capacity to leave traces is unequally distributed; some lives afford blank pages and quiet rooms more readily than others. Recognizing this, we can design kinder environments—shared schedules, communal childcare, equitable workloads—so more people can turn intention into record. In that light, each filled page is not only personal proof but also a modest civic act: evidence that a life was given room to move, and did. [...]
