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| 37 | 1167 | "Do you View more quotes about understand">understand, female?" So addressed, as "female," the woman, whether free or slave, is forcibly reminded of what she is, radically and basically, and that it is quite different from something else, that of being a male. |
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| 37 | 1164 | I recalled she had been forbidden to speak. |
| 37 | 1165 | Clearly she did not wish to feel the lash. |
| 37 | 1166 | "It is I who now own you," I said. |
| 37 | 1167 | "Do you understand, female?" So addressed, as "female," the woman, whether free or slave, is forcibly reminded of what she is, radically and basically, and that it is quite different from something else, that of being a male. |
| 37 | 1168 | And this recollection, on the part of a slave, who is vulnerable, helpless, and owned, is even more devastating, for she is not only a female, but a female who is a slave. |
| 37 | 1169 | The slave swiftly nodded, frightened. |
| 37 | 1170 | Her hair moved about her shoulders as she did this. |