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| 5 | 379 | But View more quotes about better">better I thought to be the abject slave of such a man than the pampered darling of a rich weakling, of the sort to which our background and the nature of our lives directed us. |
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| 5 | 376 | "No!" "What," he asked, "if you should meet not the men of your world, boys, half-men, subdued men, furtive glancers, guilty, shamed, crippled men, men trained to betray their nature, taught to suppress their manhood, but other men, natural men, quiet, unpretentious, powerful, confident, self-assured men, men who look upon women as delights, as delicious creations of nature to be fittingly brought within the ambit of one's power, to be owned and mastered". |
| 5 | 377 | "Could there be such men?" I asked. |
| 5 | 378 | I was terrified because I, and my sisters, in our meaninglessness, were worthy to be to such men no more than slaves. |
| 5 | 379 | But better I thought to be the abject slave of such a man than the pampered darling of a rich weakling, of the sort to which our background and the nature of our lives directed us. |
| 5 | 380 | Owned by such a man one would strive to please him. |
| 5 | 381 | One would hope, trembling, to be found pleasing "There are such men," he said, "even on Earth". |
| 5 | 382 | "Surely not!" I said. |