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| 26 | 1164 | What would they View more quotes about care">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. |
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| 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. |
| 26 | 1165 | To be sure, how cruel these needs! With them and in them I suffer, well do I know their anguish, but I would not exchange them for the soporific quiescence, the quietude and repose, the numb and frosty serenity, of the unperturbed free woman. |
| 26 | 1166 | I would not exchange my slave needs for the world, for with them, and in them, I am intensely aware, awake and alive, a thousand times more so than I would have thought possible. |
| 26 | 1167 | With them I am a fabric spread to the weathers of the world, to its vibrant, vital multiplicity and wealth. |