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| 26 | 1153 | I View more quotes about found">found it hard to believe that human nature was a mistake, and biology incorrect. |
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| 26 | 1150 | They make us the victims of our own needs, and use them to bring us choicelessly to their feet. |
| 26 | 1151 | How cruel they are! How I need, want and love them! On Earth, I tried to hate them, as my sisters wished, but would not say, but even in my determination to conform to these sororal demands, and in the midst of my prescribed, routinely uttered critiques and denunciations, I found them fascinating. |
| 26 | 1152 | I wondered even then what it would be to belong to them, fully, as a chattel, as so many women in history, my sisters, belonged to them. |
| 26 | 1153 | I found it hard to believe that human nature was a mistake, and biology incorrect. |
| 26 | 1154 | Could an entire species be in error? And I knew too much history, over a thousand generations, to suppose that the biography of a race was an inexplicable accident, a mere haphazard contingency that might as easily have been otherwise, that it was without meaning or foundation, that there no reason why it was as it was. |
| 26 | 1155 | And I wondered if I had not on Earth betrayed my truths and sold my happiness to please others. |
| 26 | 1156 | What reward will compensate one for that? Lies are expensive, and sorely purchased! There are gains and losses, always, but the gain of the few may be the loss of the many, and one wonders if the few have truly gained. |