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| 5 | 68 | And so I View more quotes about gave">gave attention to my figure, with diet and exercise, gave attention to my hair, improved my makeup, enlarged my wardrobe, and made it a point to dress flatteringly I was careful now with respect to my posture, my speech, and demeanor, and carried my head high, as might a lofty, frigid free woman. |
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| 5 | 65 | And so, I thought, in a variety of ways, I would act a part, and thus diminish, and then dismiss, my concerns. |
| 5 | 66 | What could not be I would pretend was. |
| 5 | 67 | If I were not truly beautiful, I would act as though I was, even to insolence and defiance; if I was not desirable, I would act as though I was, even to arousing interest and then, mockingly, frustrating it. |
| 5 | 68 | And so I gave attention to my figure, with diet and exercise, gave attention to my hair, improved my makeup, enlarged my wardrobe, and made it a point to dress flatteringly I was careful now with respect to my posture, my speech, and demeanor, and carried my head high, as might a lofty, frigid free woman. |
| 5 | 69 | How meretricious that was, as I knew myself, in my heart, a slave. |
| 5 | 70 | My head should have been bowed! And I should have feared the lash! But it was a game, a form of acting, you must understand. |
| 5 | 71 | Was I not legally free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that. |