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| 2 | 912 | No longer did I deceive View more quotes about myself">myself that I might be his equal. |
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| 2 | 909 | I knelt before the man. |
| 2 | 910 | He stood before me, legs spread, arms crossed, looking down at me. |
| 2 | 911 | Gone from me in that moment, with the blood that ran from my mouth, were my illusions. |
| 2 | 912 | No longer did I deceive myself that I might be his equal. |
| 2 | 913 | The farcicality of that illusion was now transparent to me. |
| 2 | 914 | The pitifulness of that pretense vanished before the simple, incontrovertible biological reality which had been impressed upon me, in the light of his uncompromising masculine dominance which he, in health and power, chose to exercise over me, a female. |
| 2 | 915 | How beautiful to men must be women, I thought, who are at their feet. |