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| 27 | 1378 | She discovers that her View more quotes about beauty">beauty, unlike when she was a free woman, is nothing to be ashamed of, but is rather something in which to rejoice, something in which to take pleasure and pride. |
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| 27 | 1375 | Is there not a collar on their neck, which they cannot remove? Are they in slave garb not much bared, even brazenly exhibited? Must they not now kneel, even to those who might formerly have been equals and peers? Must they not now obey instantly and unquestioningly? Are they not now owned? Are they not now properties? May they not now be bought and sold? Are they not now, too, mere animals, livestock? But these feelings tend to pass. |
| 27 | 1376 | The collar soon comes to be viewed not as an emblem of degradation but as a badge of quality, a symbol of female excellence, which, to be sure, she cannot remove, a testimonial to her desirability, a sign that she has been found of interest to men, that she is a woman of the sort men want. |
| 27 | 1377 | And when she becomes more a slave she comes to understand that slave garb is not degrading, but enhancing. |
| 27 | 1378 | She discovers that her beauty, unlike when she was a free woman, is nothing to be ashamed of, but is rather something in which to rejoice, something in which to take pleasure and pride. |
| 27 | 1379 | It does not dismay her vanity to learn that she is attractive, and beautiful, even "slave beautiful". |
| 27 | 1380 | Would it yours? And she is, of course, well aware that where her charms are concerned slave garb will keep few secrets. |
| 27 | 1381 | Accordingly, she soon comes to prize her tunics, camisks, ta-teeras, and such. |