can you explain the significance of this quote?

“‘It does seem simple, doesn’t it?’ she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, ‘when you want to kill a chicken… you take a hold of it… then you wring its neck… it’s only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience…. You find it simple…. I don’t’” (101).