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| 9 | 239 | "Powers in the sense of capacities and permissions". |
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| 9 | 236 | Let them View more quotes about continue">continue to fear the whip. |
| 9 | 237 | "But how," I asked, "in what other way, other than in possible attractiveness and desirability, could a slave have more power than a free woman?" "If one can do things another cannot, and if one is permitted to do things which another, in effect, could not, then, I suppose, one has, in a sense, powers which the other does not". |
| 9 | 238 | "I see," I said. |
| 9 | 239 | "Powers in the sense of capacities and permissions". |
| 9 | 240 | "Yes," she said. |
| 9 | 241 | "Slave girls, for example, can, and must, do things and perform acts, superbly, lovingly and unquestioningly, which would be forbidden to free women, or unthinkable for them. |
| 9 | 242 | Indeed, some of the performances expected of slave girls, and some of the services rendered by them to their masters, are doubtless beyond even the ken of our ignorant free sisters. |