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| 2 | 171 | The older View more quotes about woman">woman had seen in that moment that the eyes of the younger, those of the charming, stupid-looking slut, as she saw her, were blue. |
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| 2 | 168 | Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the possessors of the treasures now forever lost to themselves, the pleasures, fruits and ecstasies of which they, in their own time, had been denied, or had denied themselves; perhaps they had been the unwitting victims of politically motivated secular asceticisms; perhaps they had been tricked out of their own birthright, having been led to accept a voluntary unrealized incarceration, taught to make themselves miserable, grieving, self-congratulating prisoners, required to pretend to contentment within the bars, within the cold walls, of an inhibitory value system; perhaps they were merely the unhappy, cruelly shaped, psychologically deformed products of an engineered apparatus, one designed to take natural organisms, bred for open fields, and grass and sunlight, and force them into the prepared, procrustean niches of a pervasive, self-perpetuating, invisible social mechanism, into a titanic, neuteristic architecture of human deprivation, and social expediency. |
| 2 | 169 | The younger woman was then coming up the aisle, toward the exit. |
| 2 | 170 | How their eyes had locked together for that moment, the eyes of the older woman bright with hatred, and cold hostility, the eyes of the younger woman sparkling with a secure, insouciant amusement. |
| 2 | 171 | The older woman had seen in that moment that the eyes of the younger, those of the charming, stupid-looking slut, as she saw her, were blue. |
| 2 | 172 | Her hair then might be naturally blond, not that that mattered in the least. |
| 2 | 173 | She was a low sort. |
| 2 | 174 | Her hair was long, rich, and silky, the sort in which a man's hands might idly play. |