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| 17 | 601 | She could not View more quotes about help">help what she was! To be sure, she resolved to attempt to conceal what she was. |
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| 17 | 598 | Then Ellen tried to lie very still, for she feared, in her tiny, inadvertent, shocked, almost protestive movement, that she had done little more than more prominently to suggest, or even display, the latitudes and geodesics of a female slave, little more than manifest even more clearly the slave curves of which they had spoken. |
| 17 | 599 | It was not her fault that she had slave curves. |
| 17 | 600 | It was in her nature. |
| 17 | 601 | She could not help what she was! To be sure, she resolved to attempt to conceal what she was. |
| 17 | 602 | None must suspect that she was a slave! She must attempt to deny this even to herself, as she had desperately for years on Earth. |
| 17 | 603 | Surely it must be wrong to be what one most truthfully, and deeply, was! Surely one must guide one's behavior, even one's thoughts, in so far as it was possible, in order to comply with cultural imperatives, with ideological demands, with external wishes and desires. |
| 17 | 604 | But is that not a true slavery, a true holding of oneself in bondage, a hypocritical slavery, a lying, worthless slavery, a slavery less worthy than confessing to oneself one's own self, and allowing it to speak openly? How much inner conflict might be thus avoided! But she lay very still, torn in her thought, afflicted by inner torments. |