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How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagueson her coffee break, yet we don__ judge a man if he doesn__ grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men__ rules and conditions? Why did I?
Manal Al-Sharif Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman__ Awakening
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How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagueson her coffee break, yet we don__ judge a man if he doesn__ grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men__ rules and conditions? Why did I?

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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.