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| 36 | 859 | View more quotes about self">Self-betrayal is lauded as virtue. |
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| 36 | 856 | The depths of female sexuality are profound. |
| 36 | 857 | For political and social reasons societies and cultures have often conspired, by means of a variety of devices, to suppress the natural woman, to use the woman herself to imprison her own being, to instill in her an insidious inertness, or frigidity, to inculcate in her a guilt concerning, and a suspicion of, and fear of, herself, and her nature. |
| 36 | 858 | Self-deception is equated with rectitude. |
| 36 | 859 | Self-betrayal is lauded as virtue. |
| 36 | 860 | The paradox of the collar is that the woman hitherto indoctrinated, and enculturated, to be self-incarcerated is then freed to be at last herself. |
| 36 | 861 | No longer does she languish beneath the neglect of an abstract, invisible master, society, with its rules and pressures, but now finds her fulfillment in the arms of an actual, visible master. |
| 36 | 862 | For thousands of years the needs, the appetitiveness, the dangerousness, the tempting seductiveness of the female have been recognized, in myths, in stories, in teachings, in folk lore, in histories, in practices. |