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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: experience the long years of struggle and study and the infinitude of toil
which had gone to the shaping of even one limb, to the carving of even one
perfected outline, he could never so use them without thought or care.
Instinctively he would seek to throw in household goods, even gold and
silver, all the city held, before he sacrificed its works of art!
Men's bodies are our woman's works of art. Given to us power of control,
we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human
relationships made by international ambitions and greeds. The thought
would never come to us as woman, "Cast in men's bodies; settle the thing
so!" Arbitration and compensation would as naturally occur to her as
cheaper and simpler methods of bridging the gaps in national relationships,
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