Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 276 | Was that so View more quotes about terrible">terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 273 | No longer could she be content with the political parodies and caricatures of womanhood insisted upon in her environment. |
| 17 | 274 | She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled with noxious brews, destructive concoctions of animosity and trepidation. |
| 17 | 275 | She wanted to be herself. |
| 17 | 276 | Was that so terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that. |
| 17 | 277 | And yet, in its way, how welcome, how gloriously liberating it is to do so. |
| 17 | 278 | Little wonder it was then that the beauty had been so confused, bewildered and distraught. |
| 17 | 279 | But that had been long ago. |
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No longer could she be content with the political parodies and caricatures of womanhood insisted upon in her environment.
She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled with noxious brews, destructive concoctions of animosity and trepidation.
She wanted to be herself.
Was that so terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that.
And yet, in its way, how welcome, how gloriously liberating it is to do so.
Little wonder it was then that the beauty had been so confused, bewildered and distraught.
But that had been long ago.
- (Guardsman of Gor)