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| 9 | 173 | View more quotes about another">Another reason I thought there might be a man about is that the authority accorded to women usually derives from men and, in the final analysis, is backed by men. |
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| 9 | 170 | Perhaps, too, there was some way in which weights could be engaged from the outside, by means of which the task could be easily accomplished. |
| 9 | 171 | One would not then need the strength of a man, or of the titanic beast I had seen. |
| 9 | 172 | But I had not heard the use of such a lever, or the specific engagement of such weights. |
| 9 | 173 | Another reason I thought there might be a man about is that the authority accorded to women usually derives from men and, in the final analysis, is backed by men. |
| 9 | 174 | Too, might not two women such as I, performing their lowly labors, be being supervised by a man? Perhaps they were even chained to their carts. |
| 9 | 175 | I might thrust aside a woman or women, but it was unlikely I could accomplish this with a man, nor was it likely I could elude a man, as my body, for whatever reason, had not been designed by nature to permit this, nor was it likely that I could hope to escape his grip once it had closed on me. |
| 9 | 176 | To be sure, on the ledge, in the vicinity of the cells, perhaps there was no need of the actual presence of men. |