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| 11 | 570 | If she should drop a View more quotes about plate">plate or break a glass, or spill a beverage, or even move awkwardly, she knew she might expect to be tied to a ring and beaten. |
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| 11 | 567 | Its rhythms are less the periodic turbulences of rush hours, the blinkings of colored, regulatory lights, carefully timed, the staccato clickings and hammerings, the stops and starts, of the assembly line, than those of tides, and winds, and clouds and rain, the appearance and disappearance of stars, the comings and goings of light and darkness, the cycles of hunger, the cycles of desire, those of the beating of the heart and the circulation of the blood. |
| 11 | 568 | Ellen did not hasten in her work but took care, rather, to do it well. |
| 11 | 569 | To be sure, she knew that clumsiness was not tolerated in a female slave. |
| 11 | 570 | If she should drop a plate or break a glass, or spill a beverage, or even move awkwardly, she knew she might expect to be tied to a ring and beaten. |
| 11 | 571 | Above all, though this may seems strange to some, the female slave is not permitted to move with the abruptness, the clumsiness, the awkwardness, the gross, unconscionable, offensive, mannish motions permitted to a free woman. |
| 11 | 572 | As a female slave she is expected to be muchly aware of her very different, very lovely, very special body, so exciting and wondrous, and to carry it, and present it, beautifully. |
| 11 | 573 | She is not a free woman. |