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| 8 | 285 | Too, of View more quotes about course">course, women, who are enormously sensitive, complex, marvelous creatures, can hope for, welcome, and respond to, such things as tenderness, gentleness, and softness. |
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| 8 | 282 | For example, men who are not in any normal sense handsome, sometimes even grotesquely irregular men, often exercise an enormous fascination over beautiful women. |
| 8 | 283 | Women tend to respond to a great variety of properties in a male, few of which are directly correlated with facial symmetries. |
| 8 | 284 | Among such properties are initiative, will, command, intelligence, strength, and power, in short, with characteristics appropriate to a master. |
| 8 | 285 | Too, of course, women, who are enormously sensitive, complex, marvelous creatures, can hope for, welcome, and respond to, such things as tenderness, gentleness, and softness. |
| 8 | 286 | Here one must be careful, however, to distinguish between the tenderness of the strong man, who is truly strong, and the softness of the weakling, who is merely weak. |
| 8 | 287 | Tenderness, gentleness, and such, become meaningful only in the context of, and against a background of, a temporarily suspended, perhaps even momentarily suspended, strength and command. |
| 8 | 288 | Only she who is truly at the mercy of a male, and his slave, and under his discipline, can truly appreciate the value of such things. |