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| 7 | 736 | And how unfree then should she View more quotes about feel">feel herself if she sensed what it might be, so held, to be owned and mastered? How she must resist her body, her dispositions, her inclinations, her desires, her emotions, her feelings, lest they betray her, lest they threaten treason to her dignity and personhood. |
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| 7 | 733 | Accordingly, they would compete with one another, it seems, each attempting to outdo the other with respect to their imperviousness to the liabilities commonly associated with a lower nature, an animal nature. |
| 7 | 734 | Many, I gathered, particularly of high caste, held themselves superior to sex, which they professed to find demeaning. |
| 7 | 735 | It is difficult, I supposed, to regard oneself as an equal to, or a superior of, a male when one is smaller, softer, and weaker, and finds oneself clasped in the arms of such a beast, helpless, unable to free oneself, its prisoner, one's softness clasped forcibly, mercilessly, to its hardness, the beast beside itself in its rage of possession and joy. |
| 7 | 736 | And how unfree then should she feel herself if she sensed what it might be, so held, to be owned and mastered? How she must resist her body, her dispositions, her inclinations, her desires, her emotions, her feelings, lest they betray her, lest they threaten treason to her dignity and personhood. |
| 7 | 737 | Accordingly, it was said that amongst many free women the taint of carnality was to be eschewed, even violently, as a thing of embarrassment and shame, unworthy of a free woman. |
| 7 | 738 | One's slave is to be denied, hysterically, if necessary. |
| 7 | 739 | To acknowledge her, is it not to acknowledge that one should be suitably collared, that one is already, so to speak, in the collar. |