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| 17 | 23 | View more quotes about once">Once collared her life has changed; once collared, her old life is superseded, even obliterated; it is beyond recall. |
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| 17 | 20 | Once collared, as the saying is, always a slave. |
| 17 | 21 | Even if such a woman is recaptured by fellows of her former city she will be brought back to her former city as only another slave, and will be held there as a slave, and a low slave. |
| 17 | 22 | To be sure, she is likely to be soon sold out of the city, as her very existence in that city is regarded as an embarrassment, and a reminder of the dishonor she has brought to her fellow citizens, her Home Stone, her caste, her clan, and family. |
| 17 | 23 | Once collared her life has changed; once collared, her old life is superseded, even obliterated; it is beyond recall. |
| 17 | 24 | It is gone. |
| 17 | 25 | The ties have been cut. |
| 17 | 26 | She is now no more than property, and knows herself as such, and she then, in all her plaintive helplessness, hopelessness, and needs, in her astonished, newly liberated, vulnerable femininity, seeks her proper place, at a man's feet. |