Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 110 | It is View more quotes about taken">taken for granted, and one thinks little of it. |
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 107 | She need not kneel and humbly, as a slave, request permission to speak, a permission which may not be granted. |
| 17 | 108 | She is said to well and shamelessly exploit the eminence and authority which the culture bestows upon her. |
| 17 | 109 | Where all are free, at least after a fashion, there is nothing special or important about freedom. |
| 17 | 110 | It is taken for granted, and one thinks little of it. |
| 17 | 111 | The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth. |
| 17 | 112 | Certainly she may contrast herself with the meaningless animal, the female slave. |
| 17 | 113 | Why then do free men court the free woman and buy the slave? Why do they yield their place in the theaters and concert halls to the free woman, and drag the slave by the hair to a tavern's alcove? When the free woman is courted, she may be uncertain if it is she, or her wealth, her influence, her familial and caste connections, or such, which are sought; when the slave is purchased, as she has nothing, she is well aware that is she herself which is desired, and for the purposes of a slave, service and pleasure, inordinate pleasure. |
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She need not kneel and humbly, as a slave, request permission to speak, a permission which may not be granted.
She is said to well and shamelessly exploit the eminence and authority which the culture bestows upon her.
Where all are free, at least after a fashion, there is nothing special or important about freedom.
It is taken for granted, and one thinks little of it.
The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth.
Certainly she may contrast herself with the meaningless animal, the female slave.
Why then do free men court the free woman and buy the slave? Why do they yield their place in the theaters and concert halls to the free woman, and drag the slave by the hair to a tavern's alcove? When the free woman is courted, she may be uncertain if it is she, or her wealth, her influence, her familial and caste connections, or such, which are sought; when the slave is purchased, as she has nothing, she is well aware that is she herself which is desired, and for the purposes of a slave, service and pleasure, inordinate pleasure.
- (Smugglers of Gor)