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| 37 | 121 | View more quotes about helplessness">Helplessness and vulnerability seem strange shields; how implausible is gentleness as an instrument of diplomacy; what an unlikely weapon is her tenderness. |
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| 37 | 118 | What battalions can march in a tearful eye and a trembling lip. |
| 37 | 119 | What potent strategies can lurk in the line of a breast or the turn of a hip. |
| 37 | 120 | How a bent knee and a bowed head can wrench a man's guts. |
| 37 | 121 | Helplessness and vulnerability seem strange shields; how implausible is gentleness as an instrument of diplomacy; what an unlikely weapon is her tenderness. |
| 37 | 122 | Who is most powerful, I wondered, the master or the slave? Then I realized that it is the master who is most powerful for he may, if he wishes, put her on the block and sell her or dispose of her in any way he pleases. |
| 37 | 123 | In the end, in the final analysis, it is he, and not she, who holds the whip. |
| 37 | 124 | It is she who, in the end, must kneel at the feet of a master, completely at his mercy, her will, in the final analysis, nothing. |