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| 2 | 914 | The pitifulness of that pretense vanished before the simple, incontrovertible biological View more quotes about reality">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. |
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| 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. |
| 2 | 916 | I wondered, frightened, if it were at the feet of men, or at least at the feet of such men as this, that women belonged, if that might be the unperverted order of nature. |
| 2 | 917 | The thought of dominance and submission, pervasive in the animal kingdom, universal among primates, ran through my head. |