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| 1 | 91 | In my dreams, and reveries, I had worn many View more quotes about collars">collars and served many masters. |
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| 1 | 88 | That is one of the many differences between a free woman and a slave. |
| 1 | 89 | A slave can be severely punished for lying. |
| 1 | 90 | Yes, I had often suspected that I was a natural slave. |
| 1 | 91 | In my dreams, and reveries, I had worn many collars and served many masters. |
| 1 | 92 | I do not know, of course, if this sort of thing is the case with other women. |
| 1 | 93 | I can speak only for myself. |
| 1 | 94 | How I had fought this suspicion, the dreams and reveries, this whispering, pressing conviction that I was a slave, a natural slave! Was I such that I should be a rightless possession? Did I long to be owned, to have a master? Did I long to love and serve, surrendered and vulnerable, helpless, owned, and choiceless, to serve rightlessly, helplessly, selflessly? How fearful, how terrible! What tumult, what misery! It was antithetical to all that I had been taught, against all the rules and prescriptions I was not to question, opposed to all the lies and artificialities in which one must pretend to believe, so uncritically and unquestioningly. |