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| 7 | 169 | Then I straightened my View more quotes about body">body, and threw back my head, proudly. |
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| 7 | 166 | I do not understand, I said to myself. |
| 7 | 167 | "Apparently you wish for them to do so," said the voice. |
| 7 | 168 | I sensed myself on a threshold, tottering on a brink, between conditions and realities, between what I was and what, for years, I had been told I should be, what, for years, I had pretended to be. |
| 7 | 169 | Then I straightened my body, and threw back my head, proudly. |
| 7 | 170 | "I am a free woman!" I cried. |
| 7 | 171 | "I am a free woman!" Almost at the same time, the voice which had so tormented me, that small, insistent, inward voice, somehow within me, again spoke. |
| 7 | 172 | "Foolish slave," it said, "do you not know slaves are not permitted to lie?" I remembered reading, in the confiscated books, that there were penalties for such failures and faults in a slave. |