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| 1 | 109 | What did it View more quotes about mean">mean, that we were not the same as men, that we were so different? Was this really totally meaningless, a unique accident in the history of a world, a random paragraph written in the oceans, in the records of steaming swamps, in the journals of primeval forests, in the annals of the grasslands and deserts, of vacillating glaciers and damp, flowering valleys, of the basins of broad rivers and of the treks of nomads, wagons and armies, or were there biological proprieties, destinies and natures to be fulfilled? I did not know. |
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| 1 | 106 | And standing there I was suddenly very frightened, for I realized suddenly, the thought never before having struck me in just the same way, and with the same suddenly significant force, that there were two sexes, and that they were quite different. |
| 1 | 107 | I regarded myself in the mirror, and trembled, wondering what this might mean, fully. |
| 1 | 108 | I feared to consider the matter. |
| 1 | 109 | What did it mean, that we were not the same as men, that we were so different? Was this really totally meaningless, a unique accident in the history of a world, a random paragraph written in the oceans, in the records of steaming swamps, in the journals of primeval forests, in the annals of the grasslands and deserts, of vacillating glaciers and damp, flowering valleys, of the basins of broad rivers and of the treks of nomads, wagons and armies, or were there biological proprieties, destinies and natures to be fulfilled? I did not know. |
| 1 | 110 | But I knew how I felt. |
| 1 | 111 | I lowered my hand and turned, slowly, before the mirror. |
| 1 | 112 | I considered myself, and was, truly, not displeased. |