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[indira Gandhi] Answered Cautiously At First. Then She Opened Up Like A Flower And The Conversation Flowed Along Without Obstacles, In Mutual Sympathy.

To Be Good Or Bad Doesn't Count: Life Out In This World Doesn't Depend On That. It Depends On A Relation Of Forces Based On Violence. And Survival Is Violence. You'll Wear Leather Shoes Because Someone Has Killed A Cow And Skinned It To Make Leather.

And Yet, Or Just For This Reason, It's So Fascinating To Be A Woman. It's An Adventure That Takes Such Courage, A Challenge That's Never Boring. You'll Have So Many Things To Engage You If You're Born A Woman. To Begin With, You'll Have To Struggle To Maintain That If God Exists He Might Even Be An Old Woman With White Hair Or A Beautiful Girl. Then You'll Have To Struggle To Explain That It Wasn't Sin That Was Born On The Day When Eve Picked An Apple, What Was Born That Day Was A Splendid Virtue Called Disobedience.

Life Is Such An Effort, Child. It's A War That Is Renewed Each Day, And Its Moments Of Joy Are Brief Parentheses For Which You Pay A Cruel Price.

It Brought Back To Mind The Injustice I Spoke Of, The Solitude That Oppresses Women Intent On Defending Their Own Destinies, Their Own Dreams, Their Own Mistakes.