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| 26 | 1161 | Let them in their pride and separateness scorn the vitality of View more quotes about slaves">slaves, she thought. |
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| 26 | 1158 | But Ellen then squirmed beneath the blanket. |
| 26 | 1159 | On her neck was a collar, and slave fires burned in her belly. |
| 26 | 1160 | But she did not envy or desire the sluggish, aloof tranquility of the free woman, so much a stranger to need and life. |
| 26 | 1161 | Let them in their pride and separateness scorn the vitality of slaves, she thought. |
| 26 | 1162 | Let them, if they wish, prize and cultivate a winter within their robes. |
| 26 | 1163 | Let them congratulate themselves on ice and inertness. |
| 26 | 1164 | What would they care for, or could they know of, the feelings of a slave? What could they know of the needs of slaves? Would such needs not be so alien to them that they must find them incomprehensible? Perhaps thought Ellen, but perhaps too, in their way, they have some sense of such things, for they, too, are women; perhaps then they have at least some dim sense of what it might be to scratch at a kennel's walls and howl to be touched. |