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| 3 | 211 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps it was an odd, anachronistic inherited trait, a genetic relic, tragically perhaps, in my case, no longer congruent with its creature's environment. |
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| 3 | 208 | Surely not! Nowhere! Nowhere! But I knew, of course, that men had, and commonly had, in thousands of places, for thousands of years, treated us, or some women, at least, perhaps luckless, unfortunate ones, exactly as they had pleased, holding them and keeping them, as no more than dogs and chattels. |
| 3 | 209 | How horrifying, I thought. |
| 3 | 210 | But surely men such as that no longer existed, and my recurrent longing for them, a needful, desperate longing, as I sometimes admitted to myself, must be no more than some pathetic, vestigial residue of a foregone era. |
| 3 | 211 | Perhaps it was an odd, anachronistic inherited trait, a genetic relic, tragically perhaps, in my case, no longer congruent with its creature's environment. |
| 3 | 212 | I wondered if I had been born out of my time. |
| 3 | 213 | Surely a woman such as I, I thought, might better have thrived in Thebes, or Rome, or Damascus. |
| 3 | 214 | But I was real, and was as I was, in this time. |