| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 113 | Let him, if he will, in defense of his failures and futility, denounce and castigate her, she whom he has View more quotes about never">never had the strength to own. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 110 | I can understand, she thought, how the same woman might be one man's wife and another's conquered, mastered, loving slave. |
| 14 | 111 | Let such husbands, such weaklings, cry out in misery, she thought, learning that their pampered, bored, spoiled, troublesome, nagging wife is another man's kneeling licking, begging slave. |
| 14 | 112 | Another, at the mere snapping of fingers or an imperious gesture, receives from she whom he has never taken the time or interest to truly know, she whom he has never questioned as to her depths and needs, she to whom he has never intimately and truly spoken, she whom he has never attempted to understand, but has insisted upon seeing only from a distance, through the distorting prisms of convention, frequent, delicious, loving, abject services, services of which he has feared even to dream. |
| 14 | 113 | Let him, if he will, in defense of his failures and futility, denounce and castigate her, she whom he has never had the strength to own. |
| 14 | 114 | Or, alternatively, let him buy a whip, put her to her knees and claim her. |
| 14 | 115 | But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law. |
| 14 | 116 | I can be legally bought and sold, and given away, and such. |