| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 186 | Was a View more quotes about coin">coin box to be chained about my neck and I would be sent into the streets? Was I to be put at the disposal of guests when I had finished serving a supper? Was I to be rented out? To be sure, it is not unusual for a free woman to want her serving slaves to be attractive to men. |
| 10 | 187 | A double cruelty is involved in this. |
| 10 | 188 | In this way, by denying her girls the arms of masters she frustrates them, which pleases her, as she hates slave girls, and she also, in a way, punishes, or thinks she punishes, men, to whom she denies her girls, for their interest in slaves, which interest she, as a free woman, resents. |
| 10 | 189 | How could one care for a slave when a free woman was present? But how could one care for a free woman, when a slave was present? But how, I asked myself, could I now be of interest to men, given the work of the razor of Petranos? "We are here," said the beast. |
| 10 | 190 | * * * * One commonly irons, as one launders, on one's knees. |
| 10 | 191 | This is, of course, not different from the usual custom of free women, those of the lower castes. |
| 10 | 192 | One of the things about your world which I found striking was the paucity of clutter and furniture in your dwellings. |