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| 3 | 864 | I glanced at the whip on the wall. |
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| 3 | 861 | An essential and ineradicable element in this View more quotes about world">world, culturally, appeared to be sexuality, with its basic distinctions between human beings, dividing them clearly into different sorts, into males and females. |
| 3 | 862 | In a world such as this I realized that I might not only be permitted to express my natural, fundamental nature, but that I might be encouraged to do so. |
| 3 | 863 | This was a world in which my femininity, whatever it was, and wherever it might lead, was not to be denied to me. |
| 3 | 864 | I glanced at the whip on the wall. |
| 3 | 865 | On this world, I suspected, I might even be given no choice but to be true to my sex, and fully. |
| 3 | 866 | For a moment this made me angry. |
| 3 | 867 | Surely I had a right to frustrate and deny my sex if I wished! If I was afraid to be a woman, truly and fundamentally, with all that it might entail, surely I should not be forced to become one! Yet I knew that in my heart I felt a sudden, marvelous surge of hope, a sense of possible liberation, that I might here, on this world, be freed, even if I were placed in a steel collar, to be what I truly was, not merely a human being, but the kind of human being I actually was, a human female, a woman. |