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| 8 | 606 | I could not, and would not, speak for all View more quotes about women">women, but I could speak for myself. |
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| 8 | 603 | Did it not hold its terrors, to be a property, to be owned! Yet I knew myself a woman who should be a property, who should be owned! I knew that I was a slave, and should be a slave. |
| 8 | 604 | My entire Earth conditioning had informed me that I should lament my bondage, that I should regard it as a condition of unmitigated misery and woe. |
| 8 | 605 | But I knew in my heart this was far from so. |
| 8 | 606 | I could not, and would not, speak for all women, but I could speak for myself. |
| 8 | 607 | And why should I allow others to speak for me, to tell me how I should feel, to decide how I should be? I was a female. |
| 8 | 608 | I wanted to belong to a man, a master, wholly and unconditionally, to be his in the fullest sense that a female can belong to a man, as his rightless slave. |
| 8 | 609 | Nothing short of this could fulfill the secret needs of my heart. |