"It is a sad fact - based on my experience - that there is no woman today whose sense of self as a woman has not been violated. We don't even notice, because the basic situation between the two sexes is inherently offensive to women: if I don't see more in my woman than what humanity has seen in her for thousands of years: it's offensive. If I approach him, if I don't listen to him, if I don't respect him enough to discuss the big questions of my life with him: it's insulting. If I don't discover its meaning, its dignity: it's insulting. And whether that woman is a stray street girl, a department store cashier or even Princess Diana belonging to the English royal family - she cannot get away with her life without harming her womanhood.
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It is a sad fact - based on my experience - that there is no woman today whose sense of self as a woman has not been violated. We don't even notice, because the basic situation between the two sexes is inherently offensive to women: if I don't see more in my woman than what humanity has seen in her for thousands of years: it's offensive. If I approach him, if I don't listen to him, if I don't respect him enough to discuss the big questions of my life with him: it's insulting. If I don't discover its meaning, its dignity: it's insulting. And whether that woman is a stray street girl, a department store cashier or even Princess Diana belonging to the English royal family - she cannot get away with her life without harming her womanhood.
""Az a szomorú tény - tapasztalataim alapján mondom -, hogy nincs olyan asszony manapság, akinek a női önérzetét ne sértettük volna meg. Észre sem vesszük, mert a két nem közötti alaphelyzet eleve sértő a nőkre nézve: ha nem látok az asszonyomban többet, mint amit az emberiség évezredek óta lát benne: sértő. Ha rálegyintek, ha nem hallgatom meg, ha nem méltatom arra, hogy életem nagy kérdéseit megbeszéljem vele: sértő. Ha nem fedezem fel értelmét, méltóságát: sértő. És legyen az a nő egy kóbor utcalány, egy áruházi pénztárosnő vagy éppen az angol királyi családhoz tartozó Diana hercegnő - életét a női lényének sérelme nélkül megúszni nem tudja."