“我告诉你我非走不可！”我回驳着，感情很有些冲动。“你难道认为，我会留下
来甘愿做一个对你来说无足轻重的人？你以为我是一架机器？──一架没有感情的
机器？能够容忍别人把一口面包从我嘴里抢走，把一滴生命之水从我杯子里泼掉？
难道就因为我一贫如洗、默默无闻、长相平庸、个子瘦小，就没有灵魂，没有心肠
了？──你不是想错了吗？──我的心灵跟你一样丰富，我的心胸跟你一样充实！
要是上帝赐予我一点姿色和充足的财富，我会使你同我现在一样难分难舍，我不是
根据习俗、常规，甚至也不是血肉之躯同你说话，而是我的灵魂同你的灵魂在对话，
就仿佛我们两人穿过坟墓，站在上帝脚下，彼此平等──本来就如此！”

这儿是原文：
"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do
you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?-
-a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched
from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think,
because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?
You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! And
if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made
it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not
talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor
even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as
if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,--as
we are!"

注释：世界上不是每个女人都是热爱你的湘女大妈