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| 21 | 1298 | View more quotes about next">Next to her beauty, and perhaps her tears, is it not her most effective and dangerous weapon? And when its use is denied to her she is, for most practical purposes, helpless, totally at one's mercy. |
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| 21 | 1295 | To be sure, the woman in question is a free woman. |
| 21 | 1296 | But all female slaves, save those bred for bondage, in a way that not all women are bred for bondage, it being ingredient in their biological nature and destiny, were once free. |
| 21 | 1297 | Accordingly the female slave, just as her free sister, is undeniably possessed of that same superb device of woman for winning her way, her subtle, skilled and lively tongue. |
| 21 | 1298 | Next to her beauty, and perhaps her tears, is it not her most effective and dangerous weapon? And when its use is denied to her she is, for most practical purposes, helpless, totally at one's mercy. |
| 21 | 1299 | She has been, in effect, stripped and disarmed. |
| 21 | 1300 | Denied the use of speech she is as though naked and bound. |
| 21 | 1301 | Conceive of her frustration, and her sense of helplessness! And vulnerability! How now shall she fare? Few things more impress upon her that she is his slave than this restriction of her speech. |