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| 27 | 1329 | Oh, yes, she View more quotes about thought">thought, I know the terror of the collar. |
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| 27 | 1326 | And so it had been his intention to inflict upon her what he supposed would be the most miserable of lives for a human female, and particularly for one such as she, a life of unutterable terror, misery, lamentation, humiliation, and shame, the life of a female slave. |
| 27 | 1327 | But how little he understood me, and understands me, thought Ellen. |
| 27 | 1328 | He did not understand, she was sure, that he had, however unintentionally, and doubtless much against his will, brought her not to misery and ruin but to herself, to a happiness she had never hitherto realized could exist, brought her to a meaningfulness and a fullness of life which she would never have dreamed possible, brought her to her radical, fundamental, basic womanhood, brought her to her fulfillment and joy, brought her to the liberation of the collar. |
| 27 | 1329 | Oh, yes, she thought, I know the terror of the collar. |
| 27 | 1330 | I certainly know it now, for there are men here who would kill me. |
| 27 | 1331 | But it would surely be the same, were I a free woman. |
| 27 | 1332 | The slave is safer, by far, almost always, than a free woman, for the slave, as she is an animal, is not likely to be killed; rather she is likely merely to change hands, as might a kaiila or tarsk. |