What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?/ The world would split open.

If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.

If society could begin to see people, as children, as women, then perhaps life would be different.

Would it have been a different world if someone had believed our lives were as important as theory and gold? (p179)

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

I'm curious what she would make of the world now. I mean, considering the British Empire's history and whatnot. Also, I just find her interesting as an individual. So it would be two for the price of one.

A woman is of greater service to our life if she is in it, instead of being an element of happiness, an instrument of sorrow, and there is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.