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| 11 | 246 | Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no View more quotes about longer">longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements of a pathological, puritanical culture alien to life and nature. |
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| 11 | 243 | They need not choose pain and loneliness. |
| 11 | 244 | They need not choose then the self-alienating options prescribed for them by others, with their agendas extrinsic to the personal happiness of their victims. |
| 11 | 245 | What is the value of choice when one must choose as one does not wish to choose? What is the value of choice when one must choose against one's own happiness, when one must choose self-denial, when one must choose what one hates? Better, choiceless, to be what one wants most to be. |
| 11 | 246 | Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements of a pathological, puritanical culture alien to life and nature. |
| 11 | 247 | Such things were at an end. |
| 11 | 248 | Such things were not acceptable to masters. |
| 11 | 249 | The self-image of the noble, inaccessible free woman was to be replaced with the reality of the needful slave. |