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| 20 | 1583 | They View more quotes about commonly">commonly regard themselves, at least among themselves, as superior to free women. |
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| 20 | 1580 | Most slave girls, incidentally, are trusted by their masters, who are fond of them. |
| 20 | 1581 | Most enjoy great freedom, at least in many ways. |
| 20 | 1582 | Many have the run of cities and fields; they meet with friends, who, too, of course, will be in tunics and collars; they enjoy wandering about, frequenting the parks, at least those in which they are allowed, and long, winding, colorful streets; too, they are frequently, as they are women, as one might expect, found in markets and bazaars, stimulated by the lavish wealth of goods displayed in the stalls and on the street blankets; indeed, one of the pleasures of the markets and bazaars, from a man's point of view, at least, is glimpsing the slave girls there, graceful and well revealed, wandering about, delighted, pointing out things, exchanging views, in their twos, and threes, and fours; they assess, sometimes quite critically, and quite vocally with amused merchants, goods they cannot buy, and often observe and negatively comment, though surreptitiously, as is wise, on the taste, color sense, and foolishness of free women. |
| 20 | 1583 | They commonly regard themselves, at least among themselves, as superior to free women. |
| 20 | 1584 | And, in a way, I suppose there is something to be said for that, at least if free women are not present. |
| 20 | 1585 | It is they, after all, who have been chosen by men, who have seen them and wanted them. |
| 20 | 1586 | It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not free women, who have been prized in the most profound and radical sense in which a female can be prized, so prized that men, so fiercely do they desire them, will be content with nothing less than owning them; it is they, not free women, who are tunicked; it is they, not free women, who are collared. |