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| 21 | 275 | It is View more quotes about thus">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. |
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| 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. |
| 21 | 278 | "Some men may prefer neurotic, frustrated, rigid, imitative, conforming free women, mouthing the correct slogans and adopting the correct views on all matters, and eager to slander all who disagree with her, but other men, perhaps naive types, would just as soon own an intelligent, beautiful, reflective, loving slave, a girl who thinks for herself, but must nonetheless obey him, regardless of her will, in all things. |