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| 16 | 1088 | She did not want to be View more quotes about chained">chained on a public shelf. |
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| 16 | 1085 | "Be grateful that you are permitted to live, slave girl," said Cotina. |
| 16 | 1086 | Ellen wondered if she herself desired to be a slave or not. |
| 16 | 1087 | Certainly she did not want to wear so cruel, high, thick, and heavy a collar, one in which she could scarcely lower her head, in effect, a punishment collar. |
| 16 | 1088 | She did not want to be chained on a public shelf. |
| 16 | 1089 | On the other hand, it seemed clear to her that whether she wanted to be a slave or not, she was a slave, and not by dint of the collar, or brand, but by dint of her deepest nature. |
| 16 | 1090 | What was wrong with her? Don't you want to be free, she cried to herself. |
| 16 | 1091 | Was she not supposed to cry such things to herself? Was it not expected? Didn't she want to be free? Surely she knew that her society had insisted that she must want to be free, so what was it, deep within her, deeper than her society, more profound than convention, that wanted rather to love and serve, to be owned will-lessly, to be mastered and dominated? But then she realized that her male-dominated society had imposed its values on both sexes, that it had generalized its own preconceptions. |