| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1583 | They View more quotes about commonly">commonly regard themselves, at least among themselves, as superior to free women. |
| 20 | 1584 | And, in a way, I suppose there is something to be said for that, at least if free women are not present. |
| 20 | 1585 | It is they, after all, who have been chosen by men, who have seen them and wanted them. |
| 20 | 1586 | It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not free women, who have been prized in the most profound and radical sense in which a female can be prized, so prized that men, so fiercely do they desire them, will be content with nothing less than owning them; it is they, not free women, who are tunicked; it is they, not free women, who are collared. |
| 20 | 1587 | They know themselves as the most attractive, exciting, and delicious of women. |
| 20 | 1588 | They know themselves the most wanted, the most coveted, of females. |
| 20 | 1589 | How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him in all ways, to a noble free woman? They compare notes on many things, for example, on fashions, those of the free and the slave; the handsomeness of masters; the inferior quality of the new girls, stripped captures at the warehouses, being bought in by the young men from distant cities to be branded and enslaved, and so on; too, they may exchange beauty secrets, and subtle master-pleasing lore, of which slave girls know much; and, too, of course, as all women, they love to talk, and can easily wile away an afternoon, here and there, gossiping and chatting. |