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| 37 | 896 | I had now View more quotes about found">found myself, and accepted myself, and loved myself! I was not a man, or a kind of man. |
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| 37 | 893 | How such as she must scorn such as I! In what contempt must she hold me! How she must despise me! But I was not such as she! I was a slave! I was collared! I must be as men would have me! If they saw fit to deny me clothing then I would not have clothing! If they ordered me to dance, I must dance. |
| 37 | 894 | If they wished me to serve, I must serve! I was not such as she! But then I, for anything, would not have wished to be such as she! I had learned my womanhood! I would never, never surrender it, not now that I had tasted it, not for all the garbage and politics in the world. |
| 37 | 895 | I had learned it at the hands of strong men, their precious gift to me, an inestimable treasure, men to whom I would be forever grateful. |
| 37 | 896 | I had now found myself, and accepted myself, and loved myself! I was not a man, or a kind of man. |
| 37 | 897 | I was a woman, something radically different and wonderful. |
| 37 | 898 | I pitied men not being women! But then, suddenly, even though I knew her to be free, I did not sense contempt or scorn in her. |
| 37 | 899 | It was strange. |