| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 80 | 173 | View more quotes about certainly">Certainly she may conceal it. |
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| 80 | 170 | A free woman may be guarded with respect to her body. |
| 80 | 171 | She may even be embarrassed by it, or ashamed of it. |
| 80 | 172 | She may fear to show it. |
| 80 | 173 | Certainly she may conceal it. |
| 80 | 174 | How frightful if she were to be thought of in terms of it, her body, that embarrassing, troubling thing so appropriately concealed, rather than, say, in terms of her mind and personhood, or, perhaps, her clear, fine features, if her veil were to become disarranged, inadvertently. |
| 80 | 175 | But beneath those robes and veils her body is there, embarrassing and troubling or not, in all its loveliness, as though waiting for its exposure or disrobing. |
| 80 | 176 | And surely she knows it is she, ready to flame alive in its exposure, as much as any other aspect of her, her mind, her features, her emotions, the needs of her belly, all such things which constitute the wholeness of her. |