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LIV You are not, his “pottedplant” property! …[Holds watering canup hightips to water her head]
ADAM Why are you so aggressive? Argue, argue, argue! AIV …[To audience] (There’s no “give” to her. Maybe she is the first lawyer?) LILITH Argue? ...To get a seat at the table. I have found my voice despite all your obstacles to property, suffrage and careers. And as for dowry, that’s nothing but bribery to fob off a “Sister.” LIV Now it is called the “glass ceiling.” It has always been a “crass ceiling.” ADAM But look at all the wonderful things I have wrought–the plow, the industrial age. AIV You are “MasterBuilder!” A man among men! LIV Get a ‘load’ of him On his “High Horse” again. LILITH “Blab” on if you will. If I do not provide you with male heirs, none of these things will happen. And you have been known, to deny credit that belongs to my “Sisters.” . ADAM Really? Give me a “for instance.”