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| 11 | 191 | How routinely she had been View more quotes about branded">branded and collared! To be sure, he had waited until he had had his fill of amusement, or vengeance, exploiting her, humiliating her, commanding her, exhibiting her before his guests, having her perform before them. |
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| 11 | 188 | She is now something, and very precisely so. |
| 11 | 189 | It informs her sense of her own body, its richness, vulnerability and beauty; it affects her thoughts, her feelings, her needs, her emotions, her entire existence. |
| 11 | 190 | She now knows herself, in the very depths of her heart, something—slave. |
| 11 | 191 | How routinely she had been branded and collared! To be sure, he had waited until he had had his fill of amusement, or vengeance, exploiting her, humiliating her, commanding her, exhibiting her before his guests, having her perform before them. |
| 11 | 192 | Then she had been routinely branded and collared. |
| 11 | 193 | Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign masters? But had he not, apart from such things, aside from all such considerations, such general things, simply looked upon me long ago, personally, individually, uniquely, and seen that I was a slave, and should be a slave? Had he conjectured me then, I wonder, stripped, perhaps bound helplessly, hand and foot, lying before him, at his feet, his? Certainly there had been little ceremony about it. |
| 11 | 194 | It was rather as though it were to be expected, as though it were something to be taken for granted, something obvious, something to be accomplished in the normal course of things, at least with one such as she. |