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| 28 | 194 | To View more quotes about look">look upon it, do they not know it was made for them, and is such that it belongs to them! That they find it different and beautiful, and desirable, excites me. |
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| 28 | 191 | She could not have begun to free herself. |
| 28 | 192 | She was slave. |
| 28 | 193 | "My body is so different from that of men," she whispered, "a body designed by nature for their pleasure. |
| 28 | 194 | To look upon it, do they not know it was made for them, and is such that it belongs to them! That they find it different and beautiful, and desirable, excites me. |
| 28 | 195 | How meaningful, and warm, and real it makes me feel! I want them to look upon it, with zest and pleasure. |
| 28 | 196 | As the body of a woman is it not theirs, a fitting belonging, like the whole of a woman, of men? I have always wanted to show it, to display it, and I am grateful that I must now do so. |
| 28 | 197 | Must we always be content with a disarranged veil, the hem of a skirt, lifted about an ankle? Better the slave in her collar, given no choice but to be bared before masters! Does not the free woman, in her heart, yearn to cast aside her robes, and show herself as what she is, woman! Does she truly wish to bargain with the promise of her beauty, dangling it before her like a closed purse, whispering its hints from behind an opaque screen? Are not such mercenary ones better put on the slave block, in chains? The beauty of a woman is not a thing of shame. |