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| 8 | 47 | View more quotes about women">Women such as I, not being free, were not permitted to deny or dismiss the truths, needs, and passions of our sex. |
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| 8 | 44 | Is it not strange that there are worlds where such an observation should appear surprising, and be hailed as a profound insight? And this, I would learn, that men were not women, and women were not men, was the case amongst even the free. |
| 8 | 45 | But for women such as I, in this place, women who were not free, such differences were profound. |
| 8 | 46 | Our differences from men were not only acknowledged by society, but, by brand, collar, and tunic, confirmed and celebrated. |
| 8 | 47 | Women such as I, not being free, were not permitted to deny or dismiss the truths, needs, and passions of our sex. |
| 8 | 48 | For women such as I, such pretenses would be no more than a laughable hypocrisy. |
| 8 | 49 | Needs and passions, desires and yearnings, should be no more things of shame than health and beauty. |
| 8 | 50 | Too, women such as I were not encased in proprieties and conventions, not hedged in by society, not permitted to hide ourselves behind veils, or within cumbersome robes, not permitted to bargain, to tease and taunt, to barter our favors for social or economic advancement. |