The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply __he other_, __n object_, __ommodity_, __hing_. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain.
Son, it__ easy tae be guid oan a fu_ belly. It__ when a man__ goat two bites an_ wan o_ them he__l share, ye ken whit he__ made o_. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it__ like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a_ kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o_ who we are, we__e deid. We__e wan anither. Tae survive, we__l respect wan anither. When the time comes, we__l a_ move forward thegither, or nut at all.
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Son, it__ easy tae be guid oan a fu_ belly. It__ when a man__ goat two bites an_ wan o_ them he__l share, ye ken whit he__ made o_. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it__ like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a_ kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o_ who we are, we__e deid. We__e wan anither. Tae survive, we__l respect wan anither. When the time comes, we__l a_ move forward thegither, or nut at all.
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