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| 13 | 209 | She is in the beginning View more quotes about perhaps">perhaps its lamenting victim, for she is treated with such impatient severity and so much is expected of her, but is soon, as she grows, blossoms and thrives in her bondage, and as her master is more pleased with her, the joyful recipient of its attendant benefactions. |
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| 13 | 206 | How they make us serve and obey! More is expected, you see, of an intelligent slave. |
| 13 | 207 | Demands are placed on her intelligence. |
| 13 | 208 | It is challenged, and exploited. |
| 13 | 209 | She is in the beginning perhaps its lamenting victim, for she is treated with such impatient severity and so much is expected of her, but is soon, as she grows, blossoms and thrives in her bondage, and as her master is more pleased with her, the joyful recipient of its attendant benefactions. |
| 13 | 210 | Intelligent, she derives more from the uncompromising completeness of her state and the deliciousness of her domination. |
| 13 | 211 | She is expected, you see, to serve with sensitivities, delicacies, diligences and subtleties beyond the ken of simpler women. |
| 13 | 212 | Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; our bodies, too, tend to be more sensitive, and this puts us the more at the mercy of our masters, and any disciplines he may choose to impose upon us; if we attempt to conceal our intelligence, in order to have less expected of us, we are whipped; our service is to be perfect, and well beyond that of a less intelligent woman; too, our faults or shortcomings are dealt with more severely, for we should know better. |