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| 20 | 39 | A View more quotes about woman">woman wants to be wanted, and she finds she is wanted, as men most want a woman, as what is theirs, as a property. |
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| 20 | 36 | A woman wishes to be reassured of her value, and on the block she is in no doubt as to the matter, as men bid on her. |
| 20 | 37 | Of course, she is of value, for men have seen fit to buy and sell her, as goods. |
| 20 | 38 | A woman wishes to be attractive, and she knows that she is attractive, for she has been marked and put in a collar. |
| 20 | 39 | A woman wants to be wanted, and she finds she is wanted, as men most want a woman, as what is theirs, as a property. |
| 20 | 40 | The woman longs to belong, and in bondage she finds herself a belonging, a rightless belonging. |
| 20 | 41 | It is hard to wear a man's collar and chains, his thongs and bracelets, and not be his, helplessly so, and in so many ways. |
| 20 | 42 | It is hard to sustain the despotic depredations lengthily imposed on her, the exploitations which she must frequently and helplessly endure, without crying herself subdued, conquered, and submitted, as she longs to be, and begging for yet more, another intimacy, another caress, another ecstasy. |