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| 36 | 114 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly, the slave girl, well aware of her beauty, which commonly far exceeds that of the plainer free woman, is seldom a stranger to vanity. |
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| 36 | 111 | They can treasure simple things, too, a ribbon, a bangle, a bracelet, a string of colorful glass or wooden beads. |
| 36 | 112 | Indeed, such simple things, as worn by a slave, herself recognized as goods, can be a thousand times more provocative to a male than the pearls and diamonds of a free woman. |
| 36 | 113 | Beautiful women tend to be vain of their beauty, and it is natural for them to nurse, guard, and enhance it, and slave girls, commonly the most beauteous of all, for commonly it is only the most beautiful of girls which are taken for collaring, are no exception. |
| 36 | 114 | Accordingly, the slave girl, well aware of her beauty, which commonly far exceeds that of the plainer free woman, is seldom a stranger to vanity. |
| 36 | 115 | Moreover, as a slave in a unapologetically and uncompromisingly male-dominated world, she is excruciatingly aware, as she might not be in a drabber, grayer, hypocritical world, of her femaleness, and its enormous importance. |
| 36 | 116 | After all, it has been in virtue of that that she has been acquired, and it is in virtue of that that she will be bought and sold. |
| 36 | 117 | Her femaleness in such a culture is not incidental to what she is. |