| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 14 | Here, as I had not on View more quotes about earth">Earth, I felt myself a woman, and, for the first time, radically and basically female, far beyond anything I had experienced on Earth. |
| 7 | 15 | Here, in a way, I had learned what I was, basically, and naturally No longer needed I pretend to be something else, some sort of imitation man, a pseudoman, or a facsimile man, or something advised to be manlike, or a creature to which sex should be unimportant or irrelevant, or a neuter of some sort, or, worse, a nothing, something meaningless, no more than a societally contrived artifact. |
| 7 | 16 | I was now what I was, myself, and wholly so, though I was ankle-deep in straw, nude, on another world. |
| 7 | 17 | Doubtless this had something to do not simply with my needs, and the unhappiness I had known on Earth, but, too, with the men of this world, dominant, powerful, virile men, who would see me as a woman, and slave, and treat me as such, men so natural, so astonishing and mighty, that before them I knew myself a slave, and could be but a slave. |
| 7 | 18 | Women came and went in this place, some introduced, some removed. |
| 7 | 19 | Sometimes men in rich robes, muchly different from the simple tunics of the guards, came to review us. |
| 7 | 20 | Notes were taken, and lists made. |