Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 227 | She is alienated from her deepest View more quotes about self">self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 224 | In a sense, then, she knows she cannot be other than herself, but is unwilling to accept herself. |
| 16 | 225 | And so she tries to pretend she is not herself. |
| 16 | 226 | In a sense, then, she tries to live a lie. |
| 16 | 227 | She is alienated from her deepest self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror. |
| 16 | 228 | The fact that she can never be a man is not an occasion for a misplaced regret, however, but an occasion for recognizing gratefully, elatedly, that she is something else, something very different, something as unique, and precious and wonderful, a woman. |
| 16 | 229 | The slave, of course, is wholly and unmitigatedly a woman. |
| 16 | 230 | She is permitted to be nothing else, nor does she wish to be permitted to be anything else. |
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In a sense, then, she knows she cannot be other than herself, but is unwilling to accept herself.
And so she tries to pretend she is not herself.
In a sense, then, she tries to live a lie.
She is alienated from her deepest self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror.
The fact that she can never be a man is not an occasion for a misplaced regret, however, but an occasion for recognizing gratefully, elatedly, that she is something else, something very different, something as unique, and precious and wonderful, a woman.
The slave, of course, is wholly and unmitigatedly a woman.
She is permitted to be nothing else, nor does she wish to be permitted to be anything else.
- (Renegades of Gor)