Oppression -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sections (TOC) : ---------------------------------- * 1 75 Words; 425 Characters * 2 28 Words; 156 Characters * 3 14 Words; 73 Characters * 4 42 Words; 275 Characters * 5 20 Words; 118 Characters * 6 20 Words; 118 Characters * 7 60 Words; 366 Characters * 8 27 Words; 205 Characters Sections (Content) : ---------------------------------- * 1 WOMEN: Let us lay down the pitchers, so our bodies will be free, In case these lumping fellows try to cause some injury. MEN: O hit them hard and hit again and hit until they run away, And perhaps they'll learn, like Bupalus, not to have too much to say. WOMEN: Come on, then--do it! I won't budge, but like a dog I'll bite At every little scrap of meat that dangles in my sight. * 2 MEN: What vengeance can you take if with my fists your face I beat? WOMEN: I'll rip you with my teeth and strew your entrails at your feet. * 3 WOMEN: I'd not be silent for any man living on earth, no, not I! * 4 MAGISTRATE: If I should take orders from one who wears veils, may my neck straightaway be deservedly wrung. LYSISTRATA: O if that keeps pestering you, I've a veil here for your hair, I'll fit you out in everything As is only fair. * 5 ...for every woman jailed, we will raise up ten women to devote their lives to this fight for free womanhood. * 6 ...for every woman jailed, we will raise up ten women to devote their lives to this fight for free womanhood. * 7 Long has woman been called the gentler and weaker half of human-kind; long has she borne the brunt of unwilling motherhood; long has she been the stepping stone of oligarchies, kingdoms and man-made democracies; too long have they thrived on her enslavement. The time has come at last when she demands her physical and spiritual freedom, -- and her liberty. * 8 ...woman is enslaved by the world machine, by sex conventions, by motherhood and its present necessary child-rearing, by wage-slavery, by middle-class morality, by customs, laws and superstitions. Events : ---------------------------------- Oppression -- Added : April 13, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/