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.
Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it__ all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you__l head for hell!
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Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it__ all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you__l head for hell!
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