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| 26 | 1149 | And then they step View more quotes about aside">aside, as though noticing nothing, while these fires periodically rage. |
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| 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. |
| 26 | 1150 | They make us the victims of our own needs, and use them to bring us choicelessly to their feet. |
| 26 | 1151 | How cruel they are! How I need, want and love them! On Earth, I tried to hate them, as my sisters wished, but would not say, but even in my determination to conform to these sororal demands, and in the midst of my prescribed, routinely uttered critiques and denunciations, I found them fascinating. |
| 26 | 1152 | I wondered even then what it would be to belong to them, fully, as a chattel, as so many women in history, my sisters, belonged to them. |