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| 13 | 100 | She was thrilled to be categorically View more quotes about subject">subject to men, and this small thing, that she might speak only with permission, as few other things, especially as she was a woman, for we so desire to speak, and so delight to speak, spoke to her of the reality of her sometimes-resented, but fundamentally longed-for subjugation. |
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| 13 | 97 | How well it reminded her that she was what she wished to be, slave. |
| 13 | 98 | How often on Earth she had entertained, however guiltily, the secret, fascinating, delicious thought of being owned, of being the helpless, rightless slave of a powerful, uncompromising master! How fearfully, and eagerly, she would have tried to please him, in all ways! She might have hoped for a caress. |
| 13 | 99 | Certainly she did not wish to be whipped! And now she belonged to a category of females susceptible to such strictures, a category of females who might be bought and sold, bartered or bestowed, without thought, as the sleek, shapely beasts they were. |
| 13 | 100 | She was thrilled to be categorically subject to men, and this small thing, that she might speak only with permission, as few other things, especially as she was a woman, for we so desire to speak, and so delight to speak, spoke to her of the reality of her sometimes-resented, but fundamentally longed-for subjugation. |
| 13 | 101 | How she resented at times being silenced, but how much more precious then was the opportunity to speak when it was seen fit to be granted. |
| 13 | 102 | Too, interestingly, she found that being denied speech, being frustrated, and such, excited her sexually. |
| 13 | 103 | Perhaps this was connected with male domination, which elicits female submissiveness, and an eager, petitionary, receptive readiness that can be almost painful. |