| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 6 | 318 | Let them rant! Let them cry out with rage. |
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| 6 | 315 | But I was now View more quotes about pleased">pleased to be again so kneeling. |
| 6 | 316 | It was the way I was supposed to kneel, and it was the way I would kneel, I decided, even before free women, if a man were present, unless he ordered me to kneel differently. |
| 6 | 317 | It was to men that I belonged, not women. |
| 6 | 318 | Let them rant! Let them cry out with rage. |
| 6 | 319 | I was proud to belong to men, to men such as those of this world! I would thus, rightfully, and joyously, kneel before them as what I was, a woman, and their slave. |
| 6 | 320 | What was the problem of women such as she who had beaten on the wagon? Did she wish, in her heart, I wondered, that she, too, could kneel thusly, owned? Then I dismissed that thought as foolish, doubtlessly foolish. |
| 6 | 321 | Not such a woman! Never such a woman! But then why was she so hostile? Did she think that our service and beauty, our yielding to our hearts, lessened or demeaned her in some way? What a puzzling inference! What an absurd conclusion! What a grotesque mockery of thought that would be! Must all women be alike? Could there be legitimately only a single type of female, and that the grotesque projection of her own feminine insufficiencies, her misery and hatred? If anything, it seemed that our abjectness might have made her own status, presumably different from ours, seem even finer and more exalted. |