第一题：
A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower


第二题：
These questions are political in the sense that the dabate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholars-only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers-will be at stake,and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding,a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society

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第二句:
这些问题之所以带有政治性，是因为关于这些问题的讨论注定了这场讨论与其说是以一种客观精神探索抽象问题，还不如说是一场学术上的权力斗争，在这场斗争中，很多女学者（直到现在才大量进入学术界）的学术生涯和职业命运将前途未卜，而且一样前途未卜的是她们对人文学科的理解做的独特贡献，这一贡献极有可能成为消除我们社会中所存在的性别歧视的一股重要力量。