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| 26 | 1236 | There are also subtler View more quotes about needs">needs involved, those to belong, to be ruled, to be owned. |
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| 26 | 1233 | He will grant us his caress, though we are only slaves. |
| 26 | 1234 | We are grateful for his touch, and we cry ourselves his, again and again, in the blinding delirium of our joy, in the ecstasy of the mastered slave. |
| 26 | 1235 | But our slave needs, thought Ellen, are not simply such needs, the needs of a pathetically aroused and cruelly intensified sexuality, as obvious as these things are. |
| 26 | 1236 | There are also subtler needs involved, those to belong, to be ruled, to be owned. |
| 26 | 1237 | Can free women, Ellen wondered, understand anything of this? Perhaps. |
| 26 | 1238 | One does not know. |
| 26 | 1239 | How fine and noble, how lofty and exalted, are free women, thought Ellen, and how I am nothing before them, but for all their status and glory I would not trade my collar. |