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| 9 | 494 | I View more quotes about must">must not allow myself to feel! But what, I asked myself, if I were not allowed to be my own mistress? What if men simply did things to me, forcing me to feel, as it pleased them, forcing me to yield, and melt, against my will, forcing me to feel, and experience, things which on Earth I had never even dreamed of, forcing me to be what I most feared, permitting me nothing else, a woman in the order of nature? Then I steeled myself again. |
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| 9 | 491 | I wanted to serve men, and give them pleasure, to be precious to them, to be loved and appreciated, to make them happy. |
| 9 | 492 | What a terrible woman I was, to want to make men happy. |
| 9 | 493 | Then, again, I strove to be cold and hard, to be cruel like stone and leather. |
| 9 | 494 | I must not allow myself to feel! But what, I asked myself, if I were not allowed to be my own mistress? What if men simply did things to me, forcing me to feel, as it pleased them, forcing me to yield, and melt, against my will, forcing me to feel, and experience, things which on Earth I had never even dreamed of, forcing me to be what I most feared, permitting me nothing else, a woman in the order of nature? Then I steeled myself again. |
| 9 | 495 | I was no pleasure slave. |
| 9 | 496 | There was no pleasure slave in me! I was above such things. |
| 9 | 497 | I was my own mistress. |