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| 8 | 564 | I scarcely View more quotes about dared">dared think it, let alone speak it. |
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| 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. |
| 8 | 565 | How categorical, how fearful, how absolute such a thing would be! Yet I longed for it. |
| 8 | 566 | I wished a man would throw me to my belly and lock a collar on my throat. |
| 8 | 567 | I wished to lie trembling at his feet, in the shadow of his whip, knowing that thenceforth, whether I wished it or not, I existed for love, passion and service. |