Status Updates From Mrs. Dalloway

i fear i do not get it but we persevere

"(...) on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penientially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own."

"In short, this living or not living is an affair of our own?"