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| 27 | 1886 | This is the passion of a View more quotes about slave">slave, she thought. |
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| 27 | 1883 | It shuddered with meaning. |
| 27 | 1884 | Each cell in her body seemed to awaken and glow, to tremble with understanding. |
| 27 | 1885 | Each chromosome in her body seemed to quiver with vulnerability, each particle of her body seemed to burn with expectation, with readiness. |
| 27 | 1886 | This is the passion of a slave, she thought. |
| 27 | 1887 | How honestly they speak of us. |
| 27 | 1888 | How truly they speak of us! How do they know these truths? How bold they are to enforce them! Can I not, somehow, hide myself from the truths they see so clearly? No, she thought, in my collar I am not permitted to hide. |
| 27 | 1889 | Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entertainment of men, the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which evolution has prepared us! Oh, dark, mysterious, subtle, beloved mighty forces of nature! How the world has so casually shaped our species, with such bountiful, thoughtless beneficence, shaping with wise, terrible, tender hands both men and women, giving us as gifts to one another, that they as masters will not be denied their slaves, and that we as slaves will not be denied our masters! Deny me not my subjection to the mastery, dear masters, for in that cruelty you deny me to myself! "We must seek out the purloined fortune," said Tersius Major. |