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| 5 | 231 | Is this so terrible? Is it View more quotes about wrong">wrong to be oneself? Perhaps, perhaps not. |
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| 5 | 228 | I am hungry. |
| 5 | 229 | I have long known myself a woman who longed to submit, to belong, to be owned, to be mastered, to serve, to strive to please, to be subject to discipline. |
| 5 | 230 | I have long known myself a natural, and rightful, slave. |
| 5 | 231 | Is this so terrible? Is it wrong to be oneself? Perhaps, perhaps not. |
| 5 | 232 | I do not claim to speak for others. |
| 5 | 233 | Why then should they speak for me? I have never wanted to relate to a man to whom I am an equal. |
| 5 | 234 | Or more, what woman would? How pathetic that would be, how one would despise such a man, such a betrayer of his nature, or one lacking the nature of man, but rather to one who is incomparably superior to myself, naturally powerful, commanding, and virile, one who would see me as I am, and do with me as he wished, one to whom I could be only a slave. |