| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 6 | 197 | The View more quotes about nature">nature of my body would keep me its prisoner. |
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| 6 | 194 | Agencies would not select me, for example, as a model, or, at least, one fulfilling the normal stereotypes of the model. |
| 6 | 195 | For example, I could never slip a chain on my waist, fastening me perhaps to a beam. |
| 6 | 196 | It would hold me quite effectively. |
| 6 | 197 | The nature of my body would keep me its prisoner. |
| 6 | 198 | And so I had never thought of myself as beautiful. |
| 6 | 199 | But here I found, in this culture, that the standard of beauty is set by what women really are, in the helplessness of their hormonal richness, rather than, for some reason, the way boys often are, in their adolescence, before they achieve the girth and strength of their manhood. |
| 6 | 200 | So, to be sure, I might not have worn certain narrow, stiltlike garments as well as a model but I had learned, initially to my surprise, and later to my dismay, and terror, and later, yet, rather to my contentment, and even joy, that I might, in a bit of silk, or in a bracelet and a pair of bangles, seem to be such that in me men might take great interest. |