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| 1 | 201 | When the View more quotes about slave">slave feels the whip, she realizes that her dream, even with its attendant perils, has now come true. |
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| 1 | 198 | Now, I trust that the ambivalence of the slave toward the whip is somewhat more clear. |
| 1 | 199 | It is, in its way, a symbol of what they want most, their ownership and domination. |
| 1 | 200 | There are many points which might be made here, but I will limit myself to three, which may be succinctly recounted: First, exemplified by what had just occurred, a woman may wish to feel its stroke in order that the reality of her longed-for bondage be impressed upon her; one does not, of course, whip a free woman. |
| 1 | 201 | When the slave feels the whip, she realizes that her dream, even with its attendant perils, has now come true. |
| 1 | 202 | Second, when a woman loves a man, she may desire to feel his whip. |
| 1 | 203 | She understands, beneath the lash, that he is claiming her, and marking her his, as she wants to be. |
| 1 | 204 | In this she finds reassurance. |