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| 21 | 27 | On the other View more quotes about hand">hand when the "free woman" finds herself just such an animal, a slave, she finds herself subject to the same objective assessments with which men, keepers and trainers, buyers and sellers, and such, regard all sorts of animals. |
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| 21 | 24 | Is it not a relative thing? Free women seldom think to compare their beauty with that of slaves, for the slave is no more than an animal. |
| 21 | 25 | They are not in the same order of consideration, or within the same compass, so to speak. |
| 21 | 26 | The statuses and ranks are so different. |
| 21 | 27 | On the other hand when the "free woman" finds herself just such an animal, a slave, she finds herself subject to the same objective assessments with which men, keepers and trainers, buyers and sellers, and such, regard all sorts of animals. |
| 21 | 28 | Suddenly her beauty is no longer concealed and sacrosanct but subject to explicit display and comparison, and vending. |
| 21 | 29 | I recalled that I had once told the Lady Yanina that there were thousands of slaves more beautiful than she, but she had dismissed this observation on the grounds that it was a pointless irrelevance, as the slaves could be bought and sold. |
| 21 | 30 | But now she, too, could be bought and sold. |