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| 2 | 44 | Had I not dreamed of such View more quotes about need">need, of such helplessness? Could I be turned into such a needful, helpless thing? Surely not! Yet had I not longed for this? "How helpless then," she said, "would a woman be!" "Do not speak so," I begged. |
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| 2 | 41 | But I do not care for men". |
| 2 | 42 | "Slave fires," she said, "may be lit in the coldest of bellies, turning them helplessly needful, beggingly needful". |
| 2 | 43 | I feared this might be true. |
| 2 | 44 | Had I not dreamed of such need, of such helplessness? Could I be turned into such a needful, helpless thing? Surely not! Yet had I not longed for this? "How helpless then," she said, "would a woman be!" "Do not speak so," I begged. |
| 2 | 45 | "What could she be then," she said, "but a man's slave, the slave of men". |
| 2 | 46 | "I would not permit it," I said. |
| 2 | 47 | "And who could respond to the men we know?" "Your wishes in the matter need not be considered," she said. |