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Your proposal that I consider in theory the notion of a woman as a leader in a democratic body is a natural development of my own thoughts regarding universal education. . . one that would have presented itself in time but revealed itself more swiftly through your questioning, for which I offer my gratitude.

Life is muddy. Denying that—thinking there’s only one noble path above the fray—can be a poisonous approach to life.

You’re like a coin made out of stone instead of metal. Or a house made out of honeycombs or feathers or maybe glass—something no one else in all the world would think to make a house of, Ester—something strange, but sound too.