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| 7 | 16 | I was now what I was, View more quotes about myself">myself, and wholly so, though I was ankle-deep in straw, nude, on another world. |
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| 7 | 13 | I suppose I should have resented my nudity, and such constraints, and being exposed to frequent, open, public, appraisive scrutiny, as the men might wish, as the animals we now knew ourselves to be, and, sometimes, being forced to take food and water on all fours, from pans, not permitted to use one's hands and such, but I found it, somehow, this helplessness, this subjection to complete, uncompromised masculine domination appropriate for me, fitting, reassuring, and thrilling. |
| 7 | 14 | Here, as I had not on Earth, I felt myself a woman, and, for the first time, radically and basically female, far beyond anything I had experienced on Earth. |
| 7 | 15 | Here, in a way, I had learned what I was, basically, and naturally No longer needed I pretend to be something else, some sort of imitation man, a pseudoman, or a facsimile man, or something advised to be manlike, or a creature to which sex should be unimportant or irrelevant, or a neuter of some sort, or, worse, a nothing, something meaningless, no more than a societally contrived artifact. |
| 7 | 16 | I was now what I was, myself, and wholly so, though I was ankle-deep in straw, nude, on another world. |
| 7 | 17 | Doubtless this had something to do not simply with my needs, and the unhappiness I had known on Earth, but, too, with the men of this world, dominant, powerful, virile men, who would see me as a woman, and slave, and treat me as such, men so natural, so astonishing and mighty, that before them I knew myself a slave, and could be but a slave. |
| 7 | 18 | Women came and went in this place, some introduced, some removed. |
| 7 | 19 | Sometimes men in rich robes, muchly different from the simple tunics of the guards, came to review us. |