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| 21 | 1375 | The View more quotes about woman">woman is then thought, in effect, to be beginning life anew, but now as a mere property, a mere animal. |
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| 21 | 1372 | "But inasmuch as the crimes of the free woman are seldom held against the slave, for the slave is only an animal, and has her own concerns, and fears, such as whether or not she is sufficiently pleasing, and so on, I would expect it to be simple, and uncompromised". |
| 21 | 1373 | "I think you are probably right," I said. |
| 21 | 1374 | Many theorists regard reduction to slavery as wiping the slate clean, so to speak. |
| 21 | 1375 | The woman is then thought, in effect, to be beginning life anew, but now as a mere property, a mere animal. |
| 21 | 1376 | To be sure, her past status and deeds do remain a part of her history, even if she is now only an animal. |
| 21 | 1377 | Thus, at least for a time, a master might relish the consideration that his abject slave was once perhaps a haughty free woman, or such. |
| 21 | 1378 | But, in time, it is likely that their relationship, mercifully, as such things fade into the past and tend to be forgotten, will become a simpler one, that merely of master and slave. |