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| 8 | 561 | Did they not View more quotes about know">know that? Why did they not enforce their power, their will on us? Could they not see what we wanted, what we needed? Were they so inattentive and insensitive? Were they so stupid, so blind? Could they not see that I, in order to attain my perfection, needed the weight of a chain, the taste of a whip? Could they not see that I could not be perfect until my will was taken from me, and I must serve will-lessly? Could they not see that this was what I wanted? I was not a man. |
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| 8 | 558 | I was confused and torn. |
| 8 | 559 | In me conditioning warred with nature. |
| 8 | 560 | Men were the masters. |
| 8 | 561 | Did they not know that? Why did they not enforce their power, their will on us? Could they not see what we wanted, what we needed? Were they so inattentive and insensitive? Were they so stupid, so blind? Could they not see that I, in order to attain my perfection, needed the weight of a chain, the taste of a whip? Could they not see that I could not be perfect until my will was taken from me, and I must serve will-lessly? Could they not see that this was what I wanted? I was not a man. |
| 8 | 562 | I was a woman! I wanted to surrender to nature, but I feared, mightily, to do so. |
| 8 | 563 | I sensed what a woman might become if she surrendered to nature. |
| 8 | 564 | I scarcely dared think it, let alone speak it. |