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| 11 | 182 | View more quotes about surely">Surely I must resist the growing of slave fires within me! How merciless are the men to us! And how amused they are at what they have done to us. |
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| 11 | 179 | That was doubtless true. |
| 11 | 180 | What slave does not long for her master? And what man does not long for his slave? I had begun to sense, frequently now, stirrings in my belly, discomforts which I feared might grow intolerable and insupportable. |
| 11 | 181 | How fearful, I suspected, are the needs of a female slave, and how helpless she is in their grasp. |
| 11 | 182 | Surely I must resist the growing of slave fires within me! How merciless are the men to us! And how amused they are at what they have done to us. |
| 11 | 183 | Was it not better to be a free woman of ice, refined and composed, at ease with her body, untroubled, inert, and serene? What is it about the collar, and finding oneself owned, as a beast is owned, which so transforms us, which puts us so piteously and helplessly at the feet of masters? From the school I could remember the moans and cries, the scratchings and beggings, of slaves. |
| 11 | 184 | I must never let myself suffer so, must never permit myself to become no more than the negligible, pleading toy of an imperious brute. |
| 11 | 185 | But, resist it as I could, and dread it as I might, I feared it could be done with me, and would be done with me. |