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| 33 | 166 | Such indulgences and frivolities are not permitted the View more quotes about slave">slave; they are permitted only to free women, who might be foolish enough to cultivate them. |
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| 33 | 163 | Certainly that had been suggested by her responses to my touch. |
| 33 | 164 | And had not her belly, as that of a slave, pressed beggingly against my hand, until she, suddenly, realizing what she had done, that she had betrayed her need, and vitality, had withdrawn it, with tears of shame? She must, of course, learn the absurdity of shame, and that it was not permitted to the slave. |
| 33 | 165 | If nothing else, let the whip teach her so. |
| 33 | 166 | Such indulgences and frivolities are not permitted the slave; they are permitted only to free women, who might be foolish enough to cultivate them. |
| 33 | 167 | The slave is an animal, and is to be as wild, and open, and free, and appetitious and sexual, as any other animal. |
| 33 | 168 | What a pathological world from which she must be derived, I thought, to be ashamed of her health, her vitality, and womanhood. |
| 33 | 169 | What purposes could be served, and whose purposes, I wondered, on such a world, to instigate such suspicions, such conflicts and contradictions, to set one part of a body against another part, one part of a mind against another? How ill or insane the society which might find profit in such divisions and treacheries! Why should she not be tutored in other betrayals, as well? Why should she not be taught to fear the dictates of her hereditary coils? Why should she not be terrified at the movement of a tiny corpuscle in her lovely body, not be ashamed, as well, of the beating of her heart, the circulation of her blood? The slave is not to be ashamed of her needs; she only need fear that the master will not satisfy them. |