Aurora Leigh – Love and Revolution - 2cyberwhelm.org
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Aurora Leigh – Love and Revolution - 2cyberwhelm.org
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AURORA<br />
Why not? I did not live, to have the faults of life.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I learned the catechism, the creeds <strong>and</strong> various popular inhuman doctrines.<br />
My aunt liked instructed piety.<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I read a score of books on womanhood that prove, if women do not think at all, they may<br />
teach thinking.<br />
AURORA<br />
Books that demonstrate women's right of comprehending men's talk,<br />
Husb<strong>and</strong>'s talk,<br />
When not too deep.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Books that delineate women's right of rapid insight as long as they keep quiet by the fire<br />
<strong>and</strong> never say no when the rest of the world is saying yes.<br />
That is fatal.<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Books which demonstrate women's potential faculty for abdicating power in absolutely<br />
everything,<br />
AURORA<br />
My aunt liked a woman to be womanly.<br />
And I?<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
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