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| 9 | 812 | The paradox of the View more quotes about collar">collar is the freedom which a woman experiences in at last finding herself, and becoming herself. |
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| 9 | 809 | It was almost as though they, somehow, in some hitherto untapped portion of their brain, or in some hitherto concealed, or suspected, but perhaps not explicitly recognized, portion of their brain, were prepared for, and understood, certain relationships, relationships which might be exemplified by, or symbolized by, such things as the chains on their wrists, or the sound of the whip. |
| 9 | 810 | By contrast certain others of the women, who seemed to me simpler, or more sluggish in body, or perhaps merely, at this time, less in touch with themselves, were reactively slower. |
| 9 | 811 | Slavery, of course, is the surest path by means of which a woman can discover her femininity. |
| 9 | 812 | The paradox of the collar is the freedom which a woman experiences in at last finding herself, and becoming herself. |
| 9 | 813 | She is a woman, really, you see, not a man, and not something else, either, also different from a woman, and she will never be fully content until she finds her personal truth, until she becomes, so to speak, what she is. |
| 9 | 814 | "What is to become of us?" asked the blonde of me, she who had been the last to be added to the chain. |
| 9 | 815 | I stayed my hand. |