| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 30 | She has View more quotes about come">come to understand that her sex is rightfully the property of men, and that, in her collar, the tensions and wars are over. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 27 | She had about her the look of a woman who is well owned, well mastered. |
| 6 | 28 | Commonly a slave rejoices that she is owned. |
| 6 | 29 | It reassures her and fulfills her. |
| 6 | 30 | She has come to understand that her sex is rightfully the property of men, and that, in her collar, the tensions and wars are over. |
| 6 | 31 | She kneels in her place, where she wishes to be, at her master's feet. |
| 6 | 32 | One is familiar with the haughtiness, the arrogance, the pride, of the typical free woman, defended by guardsmen, ringed by the walls of her city, well-veiled, well-robed, secure in her status, unassailable in station, ensconced in society's regard, but there is another pride, too, little spoken of, which is, perhaps surprisingly, that of the slave. |
| 6 | 33 | Even when she kneels before the free woman, in her mockery of a garment, fastened in a collar, her lovely hair in the dirt before the free woman's slippers, she knows herself special, and prized, in a way the free woman is not. |