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| 24 | 120 | All honor to the View more quotes about free">free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensation, she, wrapped in the remote, insulating splendor of her dignity, her rights and independence. |
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| 24 | 117 | They have been again taught their rightlessness, and bondage. |
| 24 | 118 | There are a thousand ties, and caresses, and formulas, a thousand lovings and masterings beyond the comprehension of the free woman. |
| 24 | 119 | One accords the free woman her glory; she is welcome to it; but one derives from the slave the joys of the mastery, in accordance with the inexplicable decrees and mysterious equations of nature. |
| 24 | 120 | All honor to the free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensation, she, wrapped in the remote, insulating splendor of her dignity, her rights and independence. |
| 24 | 121 | How distant she is from the squirming, gasping slave! One would not expect the free woman, for example, to beg and plead, to writhe and scream with need. |
| 24 | 122 | It would not be appropriate for her. |
| 24 | 123 | It would be scarcely dignified. |