walker recognises that wheatley is in a position far different from the narrator of woolf's essay, in that she does not own herself, much less "a room of her own". wheatley and other women writers exist outside of this room, outside of this space woolf sets asides for women writers. although she calls attention to the limits of woolf's essay, walker, in uniting womanist prose (women's writing) with the physical and metaphorical space of "our mothers' gardens", pays homage to woolf's similar endeavour of seeking space, "room", for women writers.