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| 21 | 385 | How View more quotes about beautiful">beautiful are women! I saw their eyes, their expressions, the needfulness in their movements, the subtleties. |
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| 21 | 382 | "Move," said Tyrtaios. |
| 21 | 383 | The men began to laugh, and clap. |
| 21 | 384 | They moved well. |
| 21 | 385 | How beautiful are women! I saw their eyes, their expressions, the needfulness in their movements, the subtleties. |
| 21 | 386 | What fires men have set to burn in the bellies of slaves! Is it cruel, I wondered, to have done this to them, to make them the helpless victims of such powerful, frequently recurrent needs? I supposed not, as it makes them the richest and fullest of women, the most helpless and authentic of women, the most irreparably female of women, more a woman than a free woman, afflicted by her inhibitions, locked within her conventions, the prescriptions of her society, can dream. |
| 21 | 387 | One cannot, of course, ignite needs which are not there, cannot set fires where there is nothing to burn, where there is nothing ready to burn, nothing eager to burn, nothing hoping to burn. |
| 21 | 388 | One can free such needs, of course, order them forth, refuse to allow them to remain feared and denied, and their freeing is, essentially, what the woman, in her deepest heart, wants. |