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| 14 | 132 | View more quotes about surely">Surely the slave who must, to her misery, in fear of her very life, proffer perfectly the most delicious and intimate of services to the most hated of masters knows that. |
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| 14 | 129 | Surely we are entitled to find some masters preferable to others. |
| 14 | 130 | And even if, in some sense, we are not entitled to find some masters preferable to others, it is surely a fact, which we cannot help, that we would prefer some masters to others. |
| 14 | 131 | One cannot help that. |
| 14 | 132 | Surely the slave who must, to her misery, in fear of her very life, proffer perfectly the most delicious and intimate of services to the most hated of masters knows that. |
| 14 | 133 | Why then must we beg thusly? But, perhaps, she thought, it is not that we would not choose our masters, were it in our power, but, alas, it is the masters who choose us. |
| 14 | 134 | It is rather that they would have us beg contrary to our deepest wishes, thereby acknowledging their power over us. |
| 14 | 135 | Or perhaps it is merely a way of them having us acknowledge our reality as sexual beings, that we, as women, want, desire and need sexual experience, in a pervasive, general, organic, biological manner. |