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| 8 | 252 | We are, after all, their View more quotes about natural">natural prey. |
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| 8 | 249 | If one is beautiful, why should one not be proud of it? Even if men force one, for their pleasure, to show it! And are we not pleased to be so displayed, to be seen as they will have us seen? Are we not then in the order of nature, as men will have us? Must one hide one's beauty because of the envy of the ugly? But here, I thought, men would not permit one to do so, even if one wished. |
| 8 | 250 | But what beautiful woman would wish to do so? I was pleased now, even brazenly so, to be beautiful. |
| 8 | 251 | But I did recognize its dangers, for it excites and stimulates men. |
| 8 | 252 | We are, after all, their natural prey. |
| 8 | 253 | On a world such as this a beautiful woman, or at least one such as I, is in no doubt as to her desirability, her vulnerability, and, I fear, her peril. |
| 8 | 254 | I had however learned, in the pens, that not all women on this world were such as I. |
| 8 | 255 | But I did not know, at that time, if they were numerous or not. |