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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: where the male as male and the female as female have each their body of
perceptions and experiences, which they do not hold in common; here one sex
cannot adequately represent the other. It is here that each sexual part
has something radically distinct to contribute to the wisdom of the race.
We, today, take all labour for our province! We seek to enter the non-
sexual fields of intellectual or physical toil, because we are unable to
see today, with regard to them, any dividing wall raised by sex which
excludes us from them. We are yet equally determined to enter those in
which sex difference does play its part, because it is here that woman, the
bearer of the race, must stand side by side with man, the begetter; if a
completed human wisdom, an insight that misses no aspect of human life, and
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