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| 12 | 288 | View more quotes about freedom">Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way. |
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| 12 | 285 | Too, for many years she had been free. |
| 12 | 286 | Certainly she knew, and understood, and had enjoyed all that that condition could possibly bestow upon anyone. |
| 12 | 287 | There was nothing in that condition which was unknown to her, or unfamiliar to her. |
| 12 | 288 | Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way. |
| 12 | 289 | It might be no more than a rootless boredom, in itself an invitation to nothing. |
| 12 | 290 | Certainly those on her former world who most shamelessly exploited the rhetoric of freedom did not lack freedom, but rather wanted to use such rhetorics, and allied pressures and subterfuges, in order to have goods, unfair advantages, special privileges, and such, given to them, such as economic resources, prestige, and power. |
| 12 | 291 | Their test for freedom was the receipt of ever-greater amounts of politically engineered unearned benefits. |