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| 26 | 1146 | How lordlike they are to their View more quotes about slaves">slaves! How much we are at their mercy! Men have made us dependent upon them, not only for our food and drink, for even a rag to wear, but, too, in other ways, ways far more profound, dependent upon them for the assuagement of cruel and desperate needs, needs routinely released in bondage, needs, insistencies, urgencies, and torments, in the grip of which we find ourselves pathetically helpless. |
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| 26 | 1143 | If they do not, she fears she will be slain. |
| 26 | 1144 | But how the master heated me, she thought, angrily, with the cruelty of an arousal tie, a stimulation tie! Men have done this to me. |
| 26 | 1145 | Master, be kind to me. |
| 26 | 1146 | How lordlike they are to their slaves! How much we are at their mercy! Men have made us dependent upon them, not only for our food and drink, for even a rag to wear, but, too, in other ways, ways far more profound, dependent upon them for the assuagement of cruel and desperate needs, needs routinely released in bondage, needs, insistencies, urgencies, and torments, in the grip of which we find ourselves pathetically helpless. |
| 26 | 1147 | Men, for their pleasure and amusement, kindle the tinder of our needs. |
| 26 | 1148 | As it pleases them, and doubtless because it will improve our price, they set slave fires in our belly. |
| 26 | 1149 | And then they step aside, as though noticing nothing, while these fires periodically rage. |