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I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: no, i don't want to be born. but no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.
-Oriana Fallaci
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I'll Impose Upon You The Same Arrogance

Oriana Fallaci
I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: no, i don't want to be born. but no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.
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