“I just can’t understand how a man can be so cruel to a woman, how he can take something more helpless than he and destroy her with such violence.” “That is because you do not understand what it is to be a man.” “Apparently,” she said bitterly. “I mean, yes, we women are generally smaller and softer than you, but why does that make us less than human in your eyes? Or less capable?” “It doesn’t.” Did she mean, him, personally? Or all of mankind? Cole wasn’t certain he was ready to defend those of his sex to her. “But it does,” she insisted. “If I were a man, would you so strongly object to my
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