Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 664 | Is she not more of a View more quotes about slave">slave than a slave? Abundant are her limitations; narrow are the corridors permitted for her movements; stout are the bonds of convention wherein she is bound. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 661 | Many pillows have been dampened with the tears of free women. |
| 12 | 662 | Do they know the source of their tears? Perhaps. |
| 12 | 663 | Many are the cultural expectations imposed upon the free woman. |
| 12 | 664 | Is she not more of a slave than a slave? Abundant are her limitations; narrow are the corridors permitted for her movements; stout are the bonds of convention wherein she is bound. |
| 12 | 665 | Can she fail to sense the invisible ties which bind her? How natural, then, imbued by unquestioned prescription and expectation, for her to justify the walls within which she is imprisoned. |
| 12 | 666 | How natural then her pride, her aloofness, her struggle to maintain the pretenses demanded of her. |
| 12 | 667 | What is her will compared to the weight of society? Too, is it not easy to make a virtue of necessity, that ice should commend cold, and the stone its lack of feeling? How natural then that she should, with all innocence and conviction, often with a raging earnestness, praise the treachery which has been done to her, and struggle to betray herself, to deny herself to herself. |
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Many pillows have been dampened with the tears of free women.
Do they know the source of their tears? Perhaps.
Many are the cultural expectations imposed upon the free woman.
Is she not more of a slave than a slave? Abundant are her limitations; narrow are the corridors permitted for her movements; stout are the bonds of convention wherein she is bound.
Can she fail to sense the invisible ties which bind her? How natural, then, imbued by unquestioned prescription and expectation, for her to justify the walls within which she is imprisoned.
How natural then her pride, her aloofness, her struggle to maintain the pretenses demanded of her.
What is her will compared to the weight of society? Too, is it not easy to make a virtue of necessity, that ice should commend cold, and the stone its lack of feeling? How natural then that she should, with all innocence and conviction, often with a raging earnestness, praise the treachery which has been done to her, and struggle to betray herself, to deny herself to herself.
- (Mariners of Gor)