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| 9 | 249 | View more quotes about surely">Surely we would not be so stupid, would not be such weaklings and fools as to do that, if we were men. |
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| 9 | 246 | That comprehension requires no great insight. |
| 9 | 247 | Accordingly, men must then either fulfill their nature, or deny it, and in denying their nature, deny us ours, for ours is the complement to theirs. |
| 9 | 248 | Accordingly we despise men who surrender their natural sovereignty. |
| 9 | 249 | Surely we would not be so stupid, would not be such weaklings and fools as to do that, if we were men. |
| 9 | 250 | It would be too valuable and glorious a thing to give up. |
| 9 | 251 | Its surrender would be a tragedy. |
| 9 | 252 | But we are not men! We are women, and want, truly, with everything in our hearts and bellies, to be women, and we cannot be women truly if men are not truly men! Accordingly, I would not want a man who could not whip me. |