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【正文】 e stories I hear. Then I39。s exciting or dangerous or both. I39。 we working women are too sophisticated for that. Yet the superwomen I read about are my heroines. When my faith in myself falters, it is they who urge me on, whispering, Go for it, lady! One of these days I plan to phone my former classmate Kate and shout Well done! into the receiver. I hope she won39。s desires would be a piece of cake. Women, of course, have always believed that we can39。m not only willing, but positively eager to buy that bridge she mentioned. Why? I suppose it has something to do with the appeal of an optimistic approach to life — and the fact that extraordinary deeds have been acplished by determined individuals who refused to believe that you can39。s warning against being taken in, despite everything I39。t be ready at the butcher shop as promised. The woman ahead of me in the supermarket line will pay for her groceries with a check drawn on a Martian bank, and only the manager (who has just left for lunch) can OK the matter. They also serve who only stand and wait, wrote the poet John Milton, but he forgot to add that they don39。 and a television anchorwoman, mother of two preschoolers, who was studying for a master39。s daughter who cared for her twoyearold and a newborn while finishing law school and managing a pany。s incredible acplishments and to be suitably skeptical of such stories in the future. But like a dieter who devours a whole box of cookies in a moment of weakness, I found my resolve slipping occasionally. In weak moments I39。s joke hit home. What an idiot I39。M GOING TO BUY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE Not long ago I received an alumni bulletin from my college. It included a brief item about a former classmate: Kate L. teaches parttime at the University of Oklahoma and is assistant principal at County High School. In her spare time she is finishing her doctoral dissertation and the final drafts of two books, and she still has time for tennis and horse riding with her daughters. Four words in that description undid me: in her spare time. A friend said that if I believed everything in the report, she had a bridge in Brooklyn she39。UNIT 6 Women Half the Sky Part I PreReading Task Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. Why can39。t women be ignored? 2. What price have women had to pay for their wisdom? 3. What happens to them if you try to break their will? 4. Have women realize
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