Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 21 | 799 | View more quotes about another">Another well-known saying is, remove the veil of a free woman and look upon the face of a slave. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 21 | 796 | The face, after all, with its subtleties of expression, is uniquely personal, particularly revelatory, and especially revealing. |
| 21 | 797 | A woman's face, exquisite, delicate, and beautiful, commonly so different from that of a man, unveiled, is vulnerable and defenseless, a window into her emotions and thoughts, into her heart and needs, a window that puts her ever the more helplessly in a man's power. |
| 21 | 798 | A saying has it, bare the face, bare the woman. |
| 21 | 799 | Another well-known saying is, remove the veil of a free woman and look upon the face of a slave. |
| 21 | 800 | So it is no wonder that the free woman is concerned with her veiling. |
| 21 | 801 | But this was a slave. |
| 21 | 802 | Slaves are not permitted to conceal their faces. |
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The face, after all, with its subtleties of expression, is uniquely personal, particularly revelatory, and especially revealing.
A woman's face, exquisite, delicate, and beautiful, commonly so different from that of a man, unveiled, is vulnerable and defenseless, a window into her emotions and thoughts, into her heart and needs, a window that puts her ever the more helplessly in a man's power.
A saying has it, bare the face, bare the woman.
Another well-known saying is, remove the veil of a free woman and look upon the face of a slave.
So it is no wonder that the free woman is concerned with her veiling.
But this was a slave.
Slaves are not permitted to conceal their faces.
- (Mariners of Gor)