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| 30 | 495 | And what of the calculating View more quotes about free">free woman, as well, she, ensconced in veils and customs, despising men as weaklings, exploiting them, though sheltered and protected by them, viewing them as conveniences, as little more, at best, than sources of social and economic advantage, save, of course, for the gratifications she derives from their torment, from delightfully arousing in them a hundred hopes and desires which she will then enjoyably frustrate. |
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| 30 | 492 | And scorn the foolish free man who cannot recognize and accept, and rejoice in, the slave in a woman. |
| 30 | 493 | And consider that free man who calculates so carefully the advantages of a companionship, who so carefully measures out the prospects of a relationship, as a merchant might weigh grain upon a scale. |
| 30 | 494 | He treats the woman as an instrument to his future, and thus treats her as more a slave than a slave. |
| 30 | 495 | And what of the calculating free woman, as well, she, ensconced in veils and customs, despising men as weaklings, exploiting them, though sheltered and protected by them, viewing them as conveniences, as little more, at best, than sources of social and economic advantage, save, of course, for the gratifications she derives from their torment, from delightfully arousing in them a hundred hopes and desires which she will then enjoyably frustrate. |
| 30 | 496 | Sometimes a slave learns that her master is to be companioned. |
| 30 | 497 | In such a case she must expect to be given away or sold. |
| 30 | 498 | This often causes her great sorrow. |