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| 11 | 15 | It is View more quotes about useful">useful as a discipline, and, surely, it reminds us that we are slaves. |
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| 11 | 12 | Among the peasants it is not unknown for us to struggle against our harness, dragging our master's plow. |
| 11 | 13 | As the slave is owned, she, as any other animal, may be put to any purpose the master pleases. |
| 11 | 14 | Indeed, some men enjoy treating us so, putting us to manual labor, even when there is no need. |
| 11 | 15 | It is useful as a discipline, and, surely, it reminds us that we are slaves. |
| 11 | 16 | And even lighter labors may serve this purpose. |
| 11 | 17 | What slave has not scrubbed floors, naked, in shackles? How weary I was, in my place, carrying my burden! Surely it was not for this that I had been taught in the house to cook, clean, launder, and sew, to tie a tunic, to move with grace, to speak as a slave, to kneel, belly, lick, and kiss, to eat and drink from pans, to gratefully receive scraps from a master's hand, to apply cosmetics, to fetch a whip or slippers in my teeth, to bedeck myself with beads and armlets, to wear bells, to beg in a hundred ways, to present myself in chains, to please men in the furs. |
| 11 | 18 | "Burdens down, rest," we heard. |