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| 4 | 1032 | I, View more quotes about though">though helpless, hooded, in the arms of the beasts who ravished me, had experienced, exhilarated, an incredible sense of freedom, of liberation. |
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| 4 | 1029 | In the course of the savage discipline inflicted upon me, late in its measures, I had, it both thrilling and horrifying me, sensed the ancient primate complementarity of male and female, that in the ancient biological sovereignties of nature, on this world reasserted, I, a female, was simply subordinate to the male. |
| 4 | 1030 | This truth, much fought and feared, long denied, accepted, burst upon me with a blaze of freedom. |
| 4 | 1031 | With hurricane force it blasted away the brittle webs and bars of falsehood. |
| 4 | 1032 | I, though helpless, hooded, in the arms of the beasts who ravished me, had experienced, exhilarated, an incredible sense of freedom, of liberation. |
| 4 | 1033 | It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of political prescription, but the freedom of nature, the freedom of a rock to fall, of a plant to grow, of a flower to bloom, the ecstatic freedom to be what one was. |
| 4 | 1034 | And I had cried out and seized the man. |
| 4 | 1035 | I, hooded, knew nothing of him but his maleness. |