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| 61 | 538 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure, the glory, might, and power, so to speak, of these fine ladies does tend to annoy men, who, upon occasion, perhaps, would like to collar the lot of them and put them to slave use. |
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| 61 | 535 | Naturally free women, in most cities, in their frustration, as would be expected, make the most of their prestige, caste rights, intelligence, beauty, and such, exploiting such things ruthlessly to consolidate and improve their position in society. |
| 61 | 536 | Not at the feet of men, and perhaps resentful of that fact, they surround themselves with a mystique of preciousness and power designed to awe, subordinate, reduce, and tame men, perhaps to punish men for denying them the rights and hopes of their frustrated womanhood. |
| 61 | 537 | In any event, these things are complicated and, I suspect, scarcely understood, as the currents involved are deep and not always easily detected. |
| 61 | 538 | To be sure, the glory, might, and power, so to speak, of these fine ladies does tend to annoy men, who, upon occasion, perhaps, would like to collar the lot of them and put them to slave use. |
| 61 | 539 | I understand something like this did take place in one of the "High Cities," Tharna, where every woman except the ruler, a Tatrix, is enslaved. |
| 61 | 540 | Even free women visiting Tharna must be licensed and put in the custody of a male until they leave the city. |
| 61 | 541 | Men of Tharna, when outside the city, are recognized by the wearing, in the belt, of two yellow cords, some eighteen inches or so in length. |