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| 21 | 274 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, similarity, routine, identity, boredom, those things which tend to make a woman less interesting, tend often to be functions of widespread conformances to externally imposed demands and images. |
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| 21 | 271 | It frees her individuality by liberating her from the necessities of pretense. |
| 21 | 272 | Too, slavery, by removing certain inhibitions and demands alien to a female's deepest nature, generally results in an increase in her beauty and energy; she is no longer as constricted and miserable, and needs no longer spend energy fighting to suppress herself and her natural desires, surely a grotesque and pathological misapplication of effort, a tragic waste of time and energy. |
| 21 | 273 | That the girl, thus, becomes more beautiful and energetic does not, of course, diminish her interest. |
| 21 | 274 | Indeed, similarity, routine, identity, boredom, those things which tend to make a woman less interesting, tend often to be functions of widespread conformances to externally imposed demands and images. |
| 21 | 275 | It is thus that the free woman, though interesting, being female, is usually, sadly, a bound prisoner of her own prejudices, a rigid, constricted, ideologically restrained organism, an imitator of images and stereotypes alien to her own nature, a puppet obedient to principles foreign to herself. |
| 21 | 276 | How can a woman be free until she obeys the laws of her own nature?" "I do not know," said Arlene. |
| 21 | 277 | "Interest, of course, is somewhat subjective," I admitted. |