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I made a huge noise, walking down the road all on my own, and I was embarrassed because I know they weren't waiting for me. 🔊

A girl, that's right. The number of times I've cried because I was born a girl! 🔊

But I came to you because I wanted you to have me, so that I would be your woman first. 🔊

I wanted to be your woman all the same because I love you in that way, I do, very much, and I am going to hurt you very much, oh my darling! I am so sorry! but I will never, ever be able to marry you. 🔊

And above all, tragedy is calm, because you know there's no hope, no filthy hope; you're caught, in the end you're caught like a rat, with the whole sky that's fallen on you, and all you can do is scream, not groan or complain, but scream at the top of your lungs all the things you have to say, which you've never said and maybe didn't even know you had in you. It won't help: but you do it for yourself, to learn something. 🔊

I can still say "no" to everything I don't like, and I can decide on my own. And you, with your crown and your guards and all the rest of it, all you can do is kill me, because you have said "yes". 🔊

You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊

No, I won't be quiet! I want to know what I need to do to be happy. Right now, because I need to choose right now. You say life is so beautiful. I want to know what I'll need to do to live. 🔊

Why do you want me to be quiet? Because you know I'm right? You think I can't see in your eyes that I know that? You know I'm right, but you'll never admit it, because you're clinging on to your happiness like a dog with a bone. 🔊

They'll say it's not true. That I'm just saving her because she's going to marry my son. I can't do it. 🔊

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