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Pour avoir une juste idée de l’abîme de douleur dans lequel la femme est condamnée à vivre, il faut être ou avoir été mariée.
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The speaker describes marriage as the only way to grasp the extreme suffering women may endure. “Condemned” makes that suffering sound deep and lasting, while “one must be or have been married” presents personal experience of marriage as necessary for understanding it. The statement is deliberately sweeping and severe.
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- Wikisource, digitized edition of Flora Tristan’s Pérégrinations d’une paria (1838)
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