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| 11 | 130 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, weeping, crying out, in shame, frightened, miserable and confused that I, only one such as I, might be so desirable, so beautiful, and, for my world, so exquisitely and forbiddenly feminine, but then, later, I had returned to them, determinedly, unabashedly, accepting at last, even angrily, what I was in truth, and should be, a woman, a total woman, in all her moving, exciting variety, in all her richness, in all her vulnerability, in all her marvelousness. |
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| 11 | 127 | One learns to display oneself, and well, as the merchandise one is. |
| 11 | 128 | Much of what I did I had learned in the pens, but much, too, comes from within one. |
| 11 | 129 | Some movements I had done as long ago as my old world, in the secrecy of my bedroom, before the mirror. |
| 11 | 130 | Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, weeping, crying out, in shame, frightened, miserable and confused that I, only one such as I, might be so desirable, so beautiful, and, for my world, so exquisitely and forbiddenly feminine, but then, later, I had returned to them, determinedly, unabashedly, accepting at last, even angrily, what I was in truth, and should be, a woman, a total woman, in all her moving, exciting variety, in all her richness, in all her vulnerability, in all her marvelousness. |
| 11 | 131 | "Excellent!" said a man. |
| 11 | 132 | How pleased I was! It is dangerous, of course, to appear as a woman before strong men. |
| 11 | 133 | But here I had no choice. |