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| 9 | 491 | I View more quotes about wanted">wanted to serve men, and give them pleasure, to be precious to them, to be loved and appreciated, to make them happy. |
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| 9 | 488 | I would have to bend all of my efforts, and all of my beauty, my charm, my grace, my knowledge, my intelligence, my tact, everything that I was, and could hope to be, to that end. |
| 9 | 489 | I would have to be to them, and perfectly, a pleasure slave. |
| 9 | 490 | And what horrified me most, I think, was that I wanted this. |
| 9 | 491 | I wanted to serve men, and give them pleasure, to be precious to them, to be loved and appreciated, to make them happy. |
| 9 | 492 | What a terrible woman I was, to want to make men happy. |
| 9 | 493 | Then, again, I strove to be cold and hard, to be cruel like stone and leather. |
| 9 | 494 | I must not allow myself to feel! But what, I asked myself, if I were not allowed to be my own mistress? What if men simply did things to me, forcing me to feel, as it pleased them, forcing me to yield, and melt, against my will, forcing me to feel, and experience, things which on Earth I had never even dreamed of, forcing me to be what I most feared, permitting me nothing else, a woman in the order of nature? Then I steeled myself again. |