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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: Beneath its lower side, hidden from sight, are a million fine tentacles;
impulses of will from the central nerve radiate throughout the whole body,
and each tiny fibre, fine as a hair, slowly extends itself, and seizes on
the minute particle of rough rock nearest to it; now a small tentacle slips
its hold, and then it holds firmly, and then slowly and slowly the whole
inert mass rises to the top.
It is often said of those who lead in this attempt at the readaption of
woman's relation to life, that they are "New Women"; and they are at times
spoken of as though they were a something portentous and unheard-of in the
order of human life.
But, the truth is, we are not new. We who lead in this movement today are
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