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| 4 | 1146 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps an equal must resist a man, but I was not an equal; I was a slave girl! I belonged to men! I could be a biological woman, as perhaps a free woman could not. |
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| 4 | 1143 | I was still deeply ashamed that I had yielded to the man. |
| 4 | 1144 | Then, as I lay there, bound, with Eta nearby, I asked myself why I should be ashamed? Was it wrong for a woman to yield helplessly to a man? Was it wrong for the heart to beat, to breathe, to feel? If the nature of the man were conquest and victory, what might then be the nature of the woman; could it be complementary; might it not be defeat, and delicious surrender and pleasure? I began to sweat in the bonds. |
| 4 | 1145 | Eta smiled at me. |
| 4 | 1146 | Perhaps an equal must resist a man, but I was not an equal; I was a slave girl! I belonged to men! I could be a biological woman, as perhaps a free woman could not. |
| 4 | 1147 | I could be a primitive female, an owned woman, as they could not. |
| 4 | 1148 | I could be a woman, as they could not. |
| 4 | 1149 | Slavery made me free to be a woman. |