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| 16 | 219 | She is View more quotes about aware">aware of her sex, but fears it, even distrusts it, with its secret whisperings. |
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| 16 | 216 | These are to be disarmed, and sold, their sex then placed at the disposition of others, their buyers, their masters. |
| 16 | 217 | Sometimes a free woman is taught to regard her sex as an unimportant and embarrassing contingency, meaningless to her personhood. |
| 16 | 218 | In her intelligence she recognizes the falsity of this and disbelieves it, but she faces a bleak landscape, a vacant, gray horizon, beyond the house of this fabrication. |
| 16 | 219 | She is aware of her sex, but fears it, even distrusts it, with its secret whisperings. |
| 16 | 220 | She may even, pathetically, regret it, and might tragically, absurdly, prefer to be a man, but, even so, she knows she is not. |
| 16 | 221 | and can never be. |
| 16 | 222 | That can never be, nor should it be. |