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| 12 | 274 | When a View more quotes about woman">woman is enslaved, for example, surely they do not suppose that her intelligence and sensitivity disappear. |
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| 12 | 271 | Those are songs which, in my opinion, could be written only by a woman who knew what it was to be at a man's slave ring. |
| 12 | 272 | As to the matter of the poetess' intelligence and sensitivity, I surely grant them to the free women, but maintain that such are entirely possible in a slave, and even more to expected in her than in them. |
| 12 | 273 | I suspect their position may even be inconsistent. |
| 12 | 274 | When a woman is enslaved, for example, surely they do not suppose that her intelligence and sensitivity disappear. |
| 12 | 275 | Surely they would not expect theirs to do so, if they had them. |
| 12 | 276 | No, she still has them. |
| 12 | 277 | Also, it has been my personal experience, for what it is worth, that slaves are almost always more intelligent and sensitive than free women, who often, at least until taken in hand, tend to be ignorant, smug, vain and stupid. |