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| 15 | 409 | In some View more quotes about women">women, of course, their slavery is more suppressed, more deliberately concealed, more desperately denied and hidden, than it is in others. |
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| 15 | 406 | Ellen, for whatever reason, because of her intelligence, or her dispositions, or whatever it might have been, had made the transition from freedom to slavery with relative ease. |
| 15 | 407 | That is perhaps because she had been sensitive to the appropriateness of slavery for her, on some level or another, since puberty. |
| 15 | 408 | On Earth she had been, in effect, like countless others, a slave without a collar. |
| 15 | 409 | In some women, of course, their slavery is more suppressed, more deliberately concealed, more desperately denied and hidden, than it is in others. |
| 15 | 410 | They are perhaps more frightened of themselves, and more in ideological and cultural bondage, than an emotionally freer woman, more in touch with her deeper self and feelings. |
| 15 | 411 | But it is said that even in such women there eventually comes a moment in their bondage when the emotional cataclysm occurs, when the breakthrough takes place, when the depths of the unconscious open up, when the surgent, rising earthquake of the liberated spirit totters and collapses the fragile, brittle walls of their psychological prisons, when the moment of truth blazes before them like sunrise, and shuddering and sobbing with gratitude and misery they understand themselves for the first time in their lives, understand that they are women, and belong to men, men who will see to it that they fulfill their natures. |
| 15 | 412 | They must then accept what they are, with all its marvels, beauties and vulnerabilities. |