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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	133	"Torm," I once asked, "why is Earth origin not part of the First Knowledge?" "Is it not self-evident?" he asked.	10
3	137	"It is not self-evident".	10
19	22	He had brought his tarn to flight and was descending to the streets below to rally the dispirited citizens of Ar, to call them again to arms, to challenge them to renounce the treacherous authority of the self-seeking Initiates, to strike again their blow for freedom, to die rather than yield their ...	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	55	Perhaps this institution, which on the surface seems so deplorable, is profitable from the standpoint of the race, preventing the gradual inbreeding of otherwise largely isolated, self-sufficient cities.	10
9	90	They seemed to me to be without energy, without pride, to be flat, dry, crushed men, men without self-respect.	10
18	53	* * * * Little by little, I tried to restore the self-respect of my fellow slaves.	10
18	68	Yet from their faces I knew that the contagion of self-respect, of nobility, flamed in the mines beneath Tharna.	10

Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	62	When I started a momentary flicker of annoyance crossed his features, but in an instant he was again his chuckling, affable, bubbling self.	10
15	119	"But he would be a self-governing machine," I said.	10
17	109	"Of course," said Sarm, "but such an instrument, if it were to be a genuinely satisfactory substitute for an Implanted One, would have to be extremely complex—consider provisions for the self-repair of damaged tissue alone—and thus, in the end, would itself have to approximate a humano...	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	81	Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	423	I had been emptied; I was now a void, into which I could feel the pourings, the dark flowings, of resentment and degradation, of bitterness and self-recrimination, of self-hatred.	10
15	26	How simple it is, I thought, to become a true man, powerful and predatory, self-regarding and self-seeking.	10
1	36	I myself, perhaps because I had been raised not on Gor, but on Earth, did not, fortunately in my opinion, suffer from these inhibiting prepossessions; I could use the long bow with, so to speak, no tincture of shame, no confusion of conscience, without the least injury to my self-esteem; I knew the ...	10
8	165	I had been a boy and now I had come to the seeings of manhood, and found within myself, disgusting me, something capable of cowardice, self-indulgence, selfishness, and cruelty.	10
11	170	I expected that there would be support for this position, both from men like myself, self-seeking men, wise in political realities, and from the inevitable and useful fools, abundant even in Port Kar, hoping simply for a saner and more efficient governance of their city.	10
13	121	He, as I, had little doubt that there was a slave in the young, lovely Lady Vivina, her deepest self, which required only its liberation.	10
15	852	And then the words that I spoke did not seem to come from me but from something within me that was deeper than the self I knew.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	364	I had regained my self-respect.	10
12	171	I would turn him into an obedient, manipulable Earth male, sex-betraying, dominance-surrendering, self-surrendering.	10
13	983	She needs to search for her "self" no longer.	10
13	1053	I realized with a blaze of misery, and self-pity, that to such a man it was only I who could be the slave.	10
15	950	I had not been pleased to be locked in the box alone with myself, with such a person, forced there to face her and realize that she was your own self.	10
15	992	Mostly I prided myself on my moral superiority as a woman, above the self-indulgent, contaminating weaknesses of their piteous needs.	10
17	143	"Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded...	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	923	Her identity, her very sense of self, from her earliest understandings had been fused with that name, inseparable from it.	10
16	320	It is interesting to note a woman, in the process of her vending, who attempts, out of self-hatred, or hatred of men, or pride, to conceal this deprivation, this need.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	161	This suggests that there may be a true answer, for how can there be falsity without truth? One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer.	10
1	187	I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor...	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	156	Further, he has not been conditioned with counterinstinctual value sets, programmed with guilt, taught self-hatred; he has been taught pride and has, in the very air he breathes, imbibed the mastery of females.	10
1	298	Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...	10
1	554	In this way they can maintain their self-respect.	10
2	157	Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...	10
4	149	History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ...	10
5	797	Was this so fearful for a woman, I wondered, for a real woman, a natural woman, a feminine woman? Could they truly believe biology, and millions of years of evolution, were socially constructed artifacts that might be swept aside with impunity, without consequences, in order to promote self-serving ...	10
11	108	These children, if it is significant, are almost uniformly secure in their families, sturdy, outspoken and self-reliant.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	360	The very sight of a female slave, particularly as they are likely to be garbed, and must move, would be likely to stun a man of Earth; nothing has prepared him to believe that such women exist; one of the things that would be most likely to startle him, if not trouble him, perhaps cause him initial ...	10
2	1139	So narrowly had I evaded the loss of my personhood, my self-respect.	10
4	1179	Now, for the first time in my life, in my joy and self-acceptance as a female slave, I wanted to give.	10
5	241	"Have I not set you always a model of elegance, an example of nobility and self-respect?" asked the Lady Sabina.	10
5	279	"Have I not always set you an example of nobility, dignity and self-respect?" asked the Lady Sabina.	10
9	231	What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t...	10
21	16	I had lived for my vengeance, dreaming of it, and, when I had attained it, I found it only misery and ashes, and unspeakable anguish, for it had cost me my very self, he whom I loved, Clitus Vitellius of the city of Ar.	10
26	737	Elicia squirmed on the furs, the Earth girl in her suddenly fighting to retain her self-image.	10
29	97	It is, I suppose, one of nature's utilities, reducing the female's effectiveness in self-defense or flight, putting her all the more at the mercy of the stronger beast.	10

Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	23	One of these worlds was a world poisoning itself, a pathological world insane and short-sighted, greed-driven and self-destructive.	10
2	224	Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a...	10
3	427	She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescriptions, requireme...	10
6	498	In bending, in submission, in total, will-less submission to a master, they find themselves free for the first time from the chains of egoism, liberated from the grasping pursuits of the self, readied for the surrenders of love.	10
9	246	Too, it is a psychological commonplace that it is frequently associated with misery, guilt, conflict, loneliness, confusion, self-torture, human torment, and such.	10
12	595	"Surely you have been curious about her," I said, "about that girl, your deep and true self".	10
12	620	"Fight yourself then," I said, "for it is your deepest self of which they speak".	10
24	195	You are forced to be yourself, your true self.	10
27	22	"No self-respecting sleen follows a man like that," he said.	10
35	443	These women then, natively well trained in the unspoken principles of prestige and gain, of self-seeking and egotism, are easily lured by promises of wealth and power.	10

Book 13. (16 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	856	On the occasion of that feast it was my intention to teach the girl who she was, truly, to free at long last the hidden slave which was her secret self, her true self, that girl which, hitherto, had been permitted to emerge only in the disguise of clandestine dreams, that piteous girl, denied and su...	10
51	13	Self-denial, self-torture, pretense, hypocrisy and conformance to external, alien standards must exact their inevitable costs.	10
2	46	This has to do primarily I think with psychological factors, in particular with the destruction of neurotic patterns, inculcated in the Earth female, of male-imitation, and the concurrent necessity imposed upon her by the whip, if necessary, to reveal and manifest her deeper self, that of a female.	10
6	416	I saw something, incipiently, of the joy and pride of the slave girl, the girl who knows that though her body is being placed in bondage her self and womanhood, paradoxically, are being freed—perfectly, completely, utterly.	10
6	735	The blond-haired girl would have no choice but to become her deepest, fullest, and most ancient self.	10
14	648	"Nonetheless, the intellectual recognition, abstract and superficial as it is, is a useful first step in the transformation of your consciousness, and the freeing of your deepest self, with her profundities of emotions and needs".	10
14	649	"My deepest self is feminine," she said.	10
14	703	It is rather that I fear that self.	10
14	707	"You see," I said, "that self you fear is truly you".	10
25	84	"Indeed, she is the true you, glimpsed but for an instant, your true self, seen but for a moment, begging to be freed".	10
25	97	"Free the slave within you, she who is suppressed, your true self".	10
25	102	"She must be freed," I said, "that lovely girl, the slave, yearning for a collar within you, your truest and deepest self".	10
25	106	"Are self-deceit, and lies, and hypocrisy, so noble?" I inquired.	10
27	188	Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...	10
34	67	Did she not realize that she had seen in Schendi, in those brief moments, the slave she had for so long concealed within herself, that she had seen then, frightened, scarcely daring to recognize her, her own self? What cruelties could men inflict upon women, I wondered, which could half compare with...	10
51	12	It requires an inordinate amount of energy, of course, to maintain the stern rigidities of self-suppression and constriction.	10

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1075	Then, suddenly, I was again the male of Earth, apologetic, miserable, self-castigating, overcome with anguish.	10
4	334	Never must I permit Goreans to rob me of my true self.	10
4	335	I knew what was my true self, for I had been taught what it was on Earth.	10
4	336	Years of careful conditioning and training, and a pervasive social and cultural milieu, had taught me what my true self was.	10
7	455	The slave, so unfree in some senses, even to the collar, is in other senses the freest of women, free to love, free to be submitted, free to be uninhibited, wild and sexual, free to be her deepest, most secret, most fulfilling self.	10

Book 15. (14 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	347	Perhaps we should participate in the mythologies convenient to the manipulative purposes of self-serving, self-proclaimed elites.	10
1	347	The intelligent woman, of course, now put to her knees, quickly grasps what she now is, and what is expected of her; she now realizes that she is now, presumably for the first time in her life, in the presence of masters, authentic masters of women; she is well aware of the collar on her neck, and i...	10
9	157	I remembered her briefly, wildly, uncontrollably, from the university, from the halls, from the campus, in the severe, pseudomale garments prescribed for her sex by unfeminine women, who arrogated to themselves the setting of ugly, self-serving, hateful, desexualizing fashions, enforcing their decre...	10
9	168	And no longer, either, was she in the lovely garmenture of the restaurant, that suggesting her piteous desire to express her forbidden sex, that of her deepest self, that of the true female, the feminine woman, the excruciatingly desirable feminine woman, so preciously, wondrously and gloriously dif...	10
9	182	She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...	10
10	196	Gor, it seems, had improved her sense of self-awareness or, at least, had freed her to be somewhat less circumspect about such matters.	10
13	141	"Heeding their advice produces misery and frustration, impairments, physical and mental, anxiety, pain, sickness and self-torture.	10
22	115	How zealously earnest she had been to dress in certain ways and behave in certain ways, to deny her beauty and its meaning, how desperately she had tried to live up to ideological strictures foreign to her needs; how pathetically she had dutifully repeated slogans; how sincerely she had tried to bel...	10
23	27	Here, need, coupled with anxiety and self-doubt, for she has not yet been seized by strong men, must become clear.	10
24	333	Our masters, of course, did not give us a great deal of time to indulge our self-pity.	10
24	466	Beverly Henderson, a self-confessed slave, and the most desirable woman I had ever seen, was at my feet.	10
25	24	Accordingly she could be to him little more than any other slave, only another girl, self-effacing, deferential, scarcely noticed, who served him in the establishment of her master, Tasdron of Victoria.	10
25	26	In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consequences attendant upon it he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.	10
25	45	They knew him still, as we had decided fit for our plans, as only a self-forsaken ruin and drunkard.	10

Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	416	The self-frustrating futility of their attack, obstinate and unimaginative, had, at long last, apparently been brought home to its commander.	10
11	156	If a young man is giving a proper and refined dinner, his girl, modestly attired, will commonly serve it, shyly and deferentially, quietly and self-effacingly, as befits a slave.	10
17	263	How tight, inhibited, and unhappy she had seemed there, in her politically prescribed pseudo-male attire; was that truly her world; did she not, truly, belong elsewhere, somewhere, say, in silk and a collar; how desperate she had been to subscribe to opinions imperiously imposed upon her by others; ...	10
17	376	"If the men of Earth choose to surrender the birthright of their dominance, to exchange it for the garbage of a political perversion; if they should choose to deny their genes; if they should choose to subvert and violate the order of nature; if they should choose self-castration to manhood, that is...	10
20	502	They can indicate ambiguities in self-images and confusions, in particular, as to their sexuality.	10
20	891	Too, of course, it provides her with a wondrous modality for deeply intimate self-expression.	10
20	1031	The girl now, in all her helplessness, in all her desperation, in all her sensual splendor, was dancing not aspects or attributes of her beauty before her master, but was dancing her own passions, her own needs and desires, her own piteous, needful, beautiful, intimate and personal self before him.	10
20	1523	A woman finds her deepest and most profound self in the collar of a master.	10
20	2136	Free, she is enslaved, the prisoner of inhibitions, artifices and conventions; enslaved, she is free, liberated to the self-fulfillment of her deepest nature.	10

Book 17. (24 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	464	Were self-serving and self-seeking to be no longer permitted to me? Must I now live not for myself but for others? My reality was now different, but seemingly a thousand times more real than what I had hitherto taken to be reality.	10
17	526	"Something which is self-evident to one person may not be self-evident to another," said another fellow.	10
17	529	"How do you distinguish between what merely seems self-evident and that which is truly self-evident?" I asked.	10
5	147	Such close confinements, even though voluntary and self-imposed, would surely be almost intolerable for them.	10
8	641	"You have now, as we anticipated, effected your self-delivery".	10
11	244	They need not choose then the self-alienating options prescribed for them by others, with their agendas extrinsic to the personal happiness of their victims.	10
11	245	What is the value of choice when one must choose as one does not wish to choose? What is the value of choice when one must choose against one's own happiness, when one must choose self-denial, when one must choose what one hates? Better, choiceless, to be what one wants most to be.	10
11	249	The self-image of the noble, inaccessible free woman was to be replaced with the reality of the needful slave.	10
13	605	Only then has she found her true self".	10
13	877	As they are intelligent, they are likely to be sooner in touch with their deepest nature and needs than a less intelligent woman, who is likely to be more a victim of social engineering, and more mired in a conditioned image alien to her deeper self.	10
13	1332	"You may find this hard to grasp now, but most girls, as you will learn, once they discover its authenticity and inescapability, blossom joyously, submitted, in their bondage; in it they occupy their place in nature; in it, subject to the authority and power of strong men, owned and mastered uncompr...	10
14	378	How odd it would be if man had no nature, but was unique in the universe, in being an empty vessel to be filled with ideology, an amorphous handful of clay to be molded into shapes, however bizarre, by the self-serving sculptors of society.	10
15	98	This recognition of her femaleness, and this joy in release and self-discovery, often comes as a stunning revelation to the Earth female.	10
15	173	One way, of course, is with a direct and self-assured gaze, as though she might be the equal of the brute who regards her, the way of the free woman.	10
16	237	It is a golden circle, self-sustained and eternal".	10
17	498	"One is one," said another, profoundly, "self-identical and the same".	10
17	521	"Is that supposed to be self-evident?" I asked.	10
17	523	"It is not self-evident to me," I said.	10
17	524	"That is not the fault of its self-evidence," said another.	10
17	525	"You cannot blame its self-evidence for that".	10
17	527	"How can it be self-evident to one and not to another?" I asked.	10
17	528	"One may be more talented in the detecting of self-evidence than another," said another.	10
17	532	"That is self-evident," said another.	10
17	533	"Have you ever been mistaken about what is self-evident?" I asked.	10

Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	464	The canhpi of the Yellow Knife had done more than strike flesh and bone; it had cut, too, deeply, perhaps unaccountably, or mysteriously, into the vanity, the pride and self-image of a man.	10
9	27	I fought for my self-control.	10
9	73	If a woman fears to do this she may, on an experimental basis, resort to limited self-contracting, in which her documents will contain stated termination dates.	10
12	181	It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain.	10
30	65	Too, the often cold and flinty nature of truth may, to many people, understandably, constitute a poor substitute for the comforts of self-deception.	10
37	323	I am a slave!" Some women can resist, for a time, some masters, but what woman can long resist both herself, turned against herself, by the master's will, and the master, as well? What a splendid ally the woman makes, in her own conquest! Should she not be used more often? Too, when a woman has aide...	10
44	240	To be sure, perhaps a world of guilt, anxiety, self-denial, misery, pain, confusion, scratching, clawing, scrambling, bickering, neurosis, and hatred is superior to a world of victory, confidence, health and fulfillment.	10
46	74	She is now, in compensation, unwilling to accept these startling, alarming insights, trying to restore her former self-image, trying to be pronouncedly defiant".	10
47	522	There are, of course, beauties and beauties, for example, the unparalleled, warm, vital, vulnerable, appetitious, loving, needful beauty of the female slave, and the cold, lofty, imperious beauty, smug and self-satisfied, of the free woman.	10

Book 19. (19 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	485	"If self-evidence is involved here," she said, "it is surely self-evident that it is not wrong to own human beings.	10
6	278	"Your official self and your personal self, or your public and private selves, seem quite different," he said.	10
31	108	"Then," said he, "they are self-centered, self-seeking, egocentric, petty, proud, haughty, suspicious, unpleasant, petulant, greedy, cold, sexually inert, and so on".	10
3	483	"It is self-evident!" I said.	10
3	487	To them the rectitude of the institution of slavery was self-evident".	10
9	186	How chaste, how modest, how demure she seemed in her brief tunic, and collar, with her lovely face and beautiful little figure! How dainty, how exquisite! How deferential, how shy! Surely she was a woman's slave, and only that, attentive, knowledgeable, efficient, respectful and self-effacing.	10
11	141	I sense what it is that you need and want, what it is that without it you will never achieve your most perfect and complete self".	10
20	177	Most men, at least of Gor, permit her to achieve this self-fulfillment; some of them, within certain latitudes of discipline, even permit her to proceed largely at her own pace, gradually coming to understand, incontrovertibly, that she, loving and obedient, has always been a slave to the core.	10
24	145	I had begun to sense on this perilous, primitive, beautiful world what might be the natural relationship between man and woman, a relationship expressive of the character of a species hewn by eons of evolution rather than local agendas and expediencies dictated by a subglandular minority's self-serv...	10
26	78	"Put aside all concern with your own self-image," said Teela.	10
26	149	"Tiffany and I are self-confessed sluts and slaves.	10
35	82	My deepest and most secret self had been casually disrobed and displayed for his consideration.	10
36	694	How fortunate the fellow who has a free companion, one who, however reluctantly, and at whatever sacrifice to her self-esteem and dignity, deigns to share it with him, nobly, bravely permitting herself thereupon to be subjected to the embarrassing and brief unpleasantries of carnality.	10
36	769	These things, doubtless in part because of his pride and self-image, his reluctance to accept tenderness, his fear of feeling and sentiment, his lofty conceptions of the attitudes and behaviors proper to his caste, had driven him half mad with frustration.	10
36	858	Self-deception is equated with rectitude.	10
36	859	Self-betrayal is lauded as virtue.	10
36	860	The paradox of the collar is that the woman hitherto indoctrinated, and enculturated, to be self-incarcerated is then freed to be at last herself.	10
36	1277	It is not limited, surely, to brief, ignorant, shameful, self-conscious couplings and gruntings in dark rooms, less to be esteemed because of the attendant vulgarity and shame than the honest couplings of heated, needful beasts.	10
36	1280	Sexuality on Gor is not brutish and dirty; such properties pertain only to the views of sexuality endemic in ascetic, fearing, self-congratulatory, pathological barbarisms.	10

Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1622	"Also, it could provide you with a way of negating your self-alienation, so to speak, of resolving doubts, uncertainties, and confusions, of ridding yourself of self-conflict and self-division, of resolving the tensions within you, the results of an acculturation warring with and frustrating nature,...	10
1	321	How marvelous to cast aside the artificiality of roles and become, at last, what one truly is, biologically, one's self!" "Speak more clearly," said Samos.	10
1	329	In such modalities, again and again, insistently, I have been spoken to by my deepest self".	10
1	382	She is self-identical".	10
1	390	"You are too stupid, too cold and self-centered".	10
1	1096	In the case of the girl, Rowena, of course, as she was already a self-pronounced slave, the brand and collar were little more than identificatory formalities.	10
2	922	This is a terrible blow to their beauty, vanity and self-esteem.	10
2	1435	"Do you think that I will respect you for falsifying your manhood," she cried, "for denying it, for pretending it does not exist! No! Ultimately I would only despise you for your self-betrayal! Is honesty too much to ask from men? If you will not be a man, how can I be a woman? If I were a man, I wo...	10
3	105	Fifthly, her garmentry revealed clearly a vanity and taste for sumptuous luxury, a penchant for self-indulgence and ostentatious elegance, also unlikely to be characteristic in such a woman.	10
6	594	How antibiological, petty, and self-serving were her value judgments.	10
10	578	I wished to more exactly ascertain her self-image.	10
21	42	The second major reason that the most beautiful women are slaves is that slavery increases the beauty of a woman, and this has to do not simply with the diet, exercise, gracefulness, training, carriage, and such, expected of slaves, but has to do even more, I suspect, with the inward transformation ...	10
21	604	I put my head down, and kissed her, and her lips met mine, yielding, in the unmistakable softness, and submission, and gratitude, of the self-recognized slave.	10

Book 21. (18 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1868	"For some women," she said, "the self-surrender of herself into the chains of the slaver is doubtless not only a courageous act but a marvelously beautiful and self-fulfilling one, being a public confession of her nature, and her joyful acceptance of, and recognition of, what, in the light of that n...	10
27	199	Is the morality and truth of these matters to be found in external proclamations, in alien agendas, scratched by self-promoting, dictatorial vandals on cold sidewalks, scribbled on labyrinths of confining fences by the ignorant and violent, inscribed on the billboards of intolerant, manipulative, se...	10
13	309	But self-alienation is an unlikely route to bliss.	10
13	313	The woman does not exist outside of herself, as a facade, empty within, fabricated according to the specifications of manipulators and self-serving strangers, interested in her only to the extent of adding the minim of her tiny weight to the progress of their dismal engines.	10
16	140	Do not concern yourself in this matter, sweet daughter, with the values of others, and particularly of men, for you are not a man, or of those who desire to be imitative of men, but seek to find your own female values, the deepest and most feminine values in your being, those of your deepest self.	10
16	222	"Do you think it will be only your fair self, with all its beauty, which will soon be at the bidding of a master?" she asked.	10
16	559	That would be to commit a self-defeating error.	10
16	739	I gather that she, in the customary, unquestioning self-centeredness and vanity of her youth, seemingly so inevitable in the young, has given little concern to your feelings, to your reality as an independent woman and human being, that she has scarcely thought of you, or understood you, in these wa...	10
22	373	Who was she? What was she? Perhaps she feared to find her true self.	10
25	364	One may then, after she has learned herself a slave, after she has been brought to this self-understanding, do what one wishes with her, say, keeping her or selling her, doubtless now making a profit on her, and putting her into the markets, where, eventually, if she is fortunate, she might eventual...	10
25	1194	In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than she ever was as a mere free f...	10
25	2155	And then, eventually, when she learns that there is no rescue for her, and she has begun to sense the lure of submission, and then its rightfulness, and its power, and eventually its joy, and its fulfillment for her, her self, soon, if she is intelligent, recognizing the stupidity and futility of re...	10
25	2181	These things seemed self-evident where a master and a slave were concerned.	10
25	2194	The child, for example, who is not raised with firmness but with a misguided "kindness," not in its own long-term best interest, grows into the conceited, spoiled, selfish, obnoxious, irresponsible, self-complacent, degenerate adult, the demanding, petulant adult, still basically a child, impatient ...	10
26	1024	Don't you really think so? What self-respecting rapist or slaver would be abroad at this hour? What would he expect to find? A miniature domestic sleen among the garbage cans? A brawny teamster bringing in produce from the country? Similarly I assume you live in a frequently patrolled, well-to-do di...	10
26	1348	"The self-enslavement decision is an interesting one," I said, "for it is a decision which is freely made, being made by a free individual, but, once made, it is irrevocable, for the individual is then no longer free, but only a property".	10
26	1917	Many women, you see, would not be likely to ever know bondage unless they were self-submitted".	10
26	1919	"To be sure," I said, "as soon as they are self-submitted, they are full slaves, totally and completely, just as much as if they had been taken and processed after a slave raid".	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	177	To be sure, this lack of self-division, of self-conflict, tends to be characteristic of Gorean males.	10
1	14	I had bought this candle weeks before, probably because deep within me, within my deepest self, in my anguished mind, in my tortured breast and heart, I knew this night would come.	10
1	186	You are the Doreen I must hide! Yet you are my true self.	10
1	187	I know that! It is my true self then that I must deny, and hide!" I watched her.	10
3	195	I do not think this was simply a matter of a modest reduction in my weight and, connected with this, and the exercise, a noticeable improvement in my figure, helping me to a more felicitous and reassuring self-image, that of a female in clear, lovely contrast to a male, or of the dance's prosaic imp...	10
27	144	Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s...	10

Book 23. (18 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	138	Yet her former self had done so, and her new self, whether in true justice or not, could be held accountable for the action.	10
16	214	The emotional depths of the slave are beyond the ken of the free woman, with her egotism, her defensiveness, her pride, her self-absorption, her shallowness, her superficiality, her artful self-promotion.	10
21	264	Clearly she suspected, or hoped, and nothing had as yet occurred to gainsay this suspicion or hope, that they did not know she was already a slave, that she had only yesterday spoken self-irreversible words of self-enslavement on the upper battlements.	10
21	533	Wildly she must have been considering whether or not there might be any there who had heard her speak the self-irreversible words of self-enslavement on the upper battlements.	10
24	503	At an end then were her vanities and her inhibitions, her reservations and hesitations, her reluctances and all the stultifying pretenses and falsities of her hitherto shackling, self-denying, alleged liberty, the burdensome equipages of meretricious, traitorous, self-betraying claims and dignities,...	10
5	255	"We might speak of such things as your lack of womanliness, your arrested or stunted femininity, your belligerent self-denial, your paucity of gracefulness, your mannish pretensions, your subtle clumsiness, your subtle awkwardness, your various inhibitions, your tightness, and such," I said.	10
9	182	To be sure, there is probably no fully adequate way for one to anticipate, or prepare for, psychologically, the actual transition to bondage, even if one eagerly seeks it, even if one welcomes it joyously, for with it comes a new and profoundly different understanding of one's self and nature; by it...	10
10	95	And the fellows from Cos itself, and from Tyros, and their close allies, were surely by now, if they had not been before, hardened veterans, men unlikely to be swayed by the self-serving appeals of beautiful women, men accustomed to seeing such women, of whatever city, in terms of the collar and cha...	10
13	136	She was now very different from her former self.	10
15	473	Perhaps they learn it when first they carry the candles of their longing into the recesses of their being, hoping to free their deepest self and bring it into meadows of honesty and sunlight, when first they dare to open the doors of yearning, when first they sense somewhere a radiant and more fulfi...	10
16	138	"Do you beg permission," I asked, "to legalize the matter, to speak appropriate words of self-enslavement?" She nodded, vigorously, again.	10
16	227	She is alienated from her deepest self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror.	10
16	408	It is usually thought however, for what it is worth, that the woman who does this sort of thing, for she knows the risks she runs and what is likely to be done with her, is actually, on one level or another, after long self-turmoil, seeking the collar.	10
16	515	Should the eye which opens on the awesomeness of the universe not apprehend as well the awesomeness of its own seeing? In man has the universe not come to self-consciousness, surprised that it should exist? Where then was Aemilianus? It was not my fight.	10
21	438	In this modality, they soon find the key to their deepest self, that key which unlocks the secrets of their most profound reality, and then, withal, they discover and obtain the fulfillment of their deepest being, that for which their very genetic coding cries out, that of the mastered woman.	10
21	588	"I confessed my natural slavery," she said, "and then spoke words of self-enslavement".	10
24	507	No longer must she strive to protect an imposed, false image, but at last was free to be herself, secure in servitude, possessed and treasured, dominated, helpless and loving, the last particle of will removed from her, even the last iota of self-entrapping, troublesome waywardness no longer permitt...	10
24	706	Perhaps one was such an astounding perfection to her that she would give anything to again know his touch, having sensed her ravished self in his arms to be the submitted conquest she has always longed to be, sensing in his arms that she was at last helpless in the grip of her rightful master, he wh...	10

Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	597	"Bring me a woman!" This had been a great blow to her vanity, her self-esteem and pride, as she, like most free women, had regarded herself as some sort of marvelous prize.	10
1	694	She then, and the other, curled close to him, one on each side, excitedly watching the self-presentations of the slaves.	10
12	337	Your entire self would become more loving, more sexual, more sensitive, more delicate and feminine.	10
14	46	That women are the same as men, and should be treated as such would be regarded by Goreans as an insanity, and one which would be cruelly deprivational to the female, robbing her of her uniqueness, her delicious specialness, in a sense of her very self.	10
16	10	"Even if the motivations for the thoughts which I have confided to you were purely self-regarding," I said, "which, under the circumstances, I think, would be understandable, it was nonetheless appropriate that you consider their plausibility".	10
17	54	Self-stripping, usually unbidden, performed voluntarily, is also common among fair prisoners.	10
19	533	"Beware of your language," I said, "lest you inadvertently speak words of self-enslavement".	10
36	161	It seemed he could barely resist such a female, and, of course, in virtue of this, he, who in my opinion tended to be too self-critical anyway, was often furious with himself.	10
39	94	Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.	10
45	150	Better to take the field with laughter, with a joke, with a light thought, with a buoyant heart, or to go forward with sternness, or in fury, or with hatred, or defiance, or calculation, but never with self-pity, never with sadness.	10

Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	888	"We have destroyed them as men, confused and duped them, by shaming them, by filling them with self-doubt, by denying them to themselves, by trickery and falsehood, by tripping them, by entangling them in verbal snares! We have taught them to rejoice in their diminishment and self-betrayal.	10
3	739	The Earth female, starved for sexual fulfillment, suddenly plunged into the gorgeous world of Gor, subject to masculine pleasure, taught obedience, and such, might well, I supposed, after a period of adjustment and accommodation, rejoice in self-discovery, in her true liberation, in her finding hers...	10
10	396	She does not have to search for her self; she has discovered it.	10
10	449	"It is like seeing a larl tricked into destroying himself," I said, "as though he were told that the only good larl is a sick, apologetic, self-suspecting, guilt-ridden larl.	10
11	268	It was done through the sowing of confusion, the propagation of self-doubt and guilt, all suitably bedizened in the meretricious rhetorics of morality.	10
11	270	We made them distrust themselves, and taught them to believe that their most basic instincts and elemental insights, the most essential and primitive promptings of their blood, were to be repudiated in favor of self-denial and frustration, in favor of vacuous principles, used by us as weapons agains...	10
12	217	"Your surrender cannot be the full surrender of the mature woman, the woman experienced in life, the woman who has come to understand the barrenness of the conventions by which she is expected to abide, who has discerned the vacuity of the principles to which she is expected to mindlessly subscribe,...	10
12	218	You are not such a woman, a full, mature, knowledgeable, cognizant woman, a woman profoundly in touch with her passions and deepest self, one who has come to understand that her only hope for true happiness and fulfillment lies in obedience, love and service, one craving the collar, one yearning for...	10
13	198	Naturally self-pride and health stimulates sexual vitality.	10
13	241	Until now they have doubtless been restrained only by the general effectiveness of their political warfare, the policies of spreading guilt, confusion and self-doubt in the enemy, pretending to be not the foe but the concerned friend and ally".	10
19	364	As the female by nature has feminine dispositions, needs, instincts and aptitudes, such things being genetically coded within her, functions of her behavioral genetics, as opposed to her property genetics, controlling such matters as eye and hair color, there is a template, or readiness, for self-su...	10
19	680	"I tried to do well," she said, "to learn self-effacement and deference, to serve ably, silently and unobtrusively.	10
19	1421	"But I wonder, too, if your concern might not have been self-regarding in some respect, motivated at least in part by a certain disappointment that you were, in accordance with my decision, denied an opportunity to search out, locate and exploit the vulnerable pleasures of the slave?" "Perhaps," he ...	10
25	527	Instantly, embarrassed, self-consciously, she lifted her hands to her collar.	10
25	530	Then, shyly, with seeming demureness, but with a slave girl's sense of self-display, she, her chin level, her back straight, her shoulders back, centered the lock, with both hands, delicately, carefully, at the back of the neck.	10
27	122	It is rather that he is himself, in a thousand roles, and it is himself, his wondrous self, that we love!" "There," I said to Marcus.	10

Book 26. (22 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	231	Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness,...	10
44	111	Could I help myself? And had I not been enslaved? And had my needs not been ignited and enflamed by men? Had they not detected and revealed my most profound erotic secrets? Had they not released me from myself? Had they not, indeed, forced me, with whip and chain, to become my true self, the needful...	10
3	21	To be certain, we are taught, in such situations, to be self-effacing, and to serve deferentially.	10
7	811	Aynur, she who was first amongst us, Aynur, in her rich silk, and ornaments, Aynur, in her golden talmit, with the affixed ruby, had fetched sandals, and before such as Tima and Tana, not to mention before one such as my own lowly self! On this world hierarchy exists, and status, and rank, and dista...	10
8	208	I had not been returned to my former condition of meaninglessness, that of nothingness, in which I, denied to my real self, it forbidden to me, must pretend to false identities, must conform to uncongenial stereotypes imposed upon me from the outside.	10
8	232	Indeed, the men of my world, in their self-concern, preoccupied with their own affairs, doubtless of great moment, seemed prepared to let their world die.	10
8	533	I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts conc...	10
8	608	And Sally, plump, cuddly little Sally, so excitable, so talkative, so self-depreciating, so cynical with respect to the value of her own charms, let her wardrobe for the time be merely a collar, and her place only the tiles at a man's feet.	10
8	637	The differences between the men of this world, so self-confident, so audacious, so lordly, so natural, so strong, so free, and those of my old world, so little like them, then, I assumed, must be, at least primarily, differences of acculturation.	10
9	273	Perhaps something in my demeanor had hinted at an attitude of too much self-satisfaction or complacency, or had suggested some pretense to a fraudulent superiority or had tended to convey some subtle contempt.	10
11	130	Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, w...	10
11	1022	It would have seemed to me, in effect, to acknowledge one's inner realities, to call attention to what lay within one, to proclaim one's inner self publicly, to offer oneself for bondage, to beg, in a way, the collar.	10
11	1452	One serves humbly, self-effacingly, eyes cast downward.	10
13	1471	Even had it not been for such things as the desire to serve and love wholly, with no thought of self, only with thought for the happiness of the master, I would have belonged in chains.	10
16	28	I then began, in the manners of this world, as I had learned them in the pens, to serve, deferentially, self-effacingly, proffering drink and food, sensitive to, and obedient to, his least inclination, his least word or glance.	10
19	222	I then, lifting my head a little, my right cheek near his shoulder, pressed back a bit, self-consciously, against his arms.	10
19	412	While not engaged in obtaining their livelihood from more productive elements in society, Initiates, as I understand it, spend a great deal of time in self-purification.	10
23	180	Each sex can be fulfilled only in so far as it becomes true, and honestly and fully true, to its own self.	10
23	206	But an even stronger chain held her, I thought, the growth of her softness, of her femininity, of her desire to serve, of her need for love, the dawning of her very self-consciousness, the coming to understand what she truly was, should be, and wanted.	10
24	934	They often then, self-collared, knot a rag about their hips, to conceal that they have no brand, and hurry into the streets, to surrender, as a slave, to one of the conquerors.	10
34	153	But, alas, some men, I fear, purchase girls largely for self-regarding, social reasons, for example, to impress others with their wealth, good fortune, or taste.	10
45	24	"So," said he, contemptuously, angrily, "you begged use?" Of course I had begged use! Was I to be blamed for what I was, for what I had become, that which I had earlier been only secretly, only in my dreams? And were not the masters, too, to blame? Had they not released the slave? Did he now think I...	10

Book 27. (45 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	15	So then I might say "She did this," and "She saw that," knowing that the "she" is myself, my own sentient, so much, sometimes so painfully so, self-aware self.	10
2	168	Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the...	10
17	728	"It seems to be a word for a male who subscribes to, and conforms to, codes of behavior requiring, among other things, substituting convention for nature, propriety for power, self-conquest for self-liberation, restraint for command, inaction and conformity for dominance and mastery, and, in short, ...	10
28	7	I can no longer base my self-respect, my self-esteem, on my sexual inertness, on my superiority to sex.	10
2	165	Doubtless she granted him sexual favors, the whore, the slut! And he so naive and undisciplined as to accept them, to permit her to be such, not to call her to her higher self, had she one, and reform her, if it were possible with such as she! She had no right to be with one such as he! She was not ...	10
4	374	"In the silent films might be seen many women of incredible loveliness and femininity, films made in a time in which these precious, marvelous attributes were celebrated, rather than castigated and belittled by an envious potato-bodied self-proclaimed elite of the plain and politically motivated.	10
9	52	Too richly formed, too proud, too self-respecting, too intricately structured, too much like nature herself, is Gorean society for that.	10
11	23	Is that not what many vociferous proclaimers of her former ideology maintained that wives were, anyway, slaves? How silly that was, what infantile semantic slight of hand! Is there no better way to abolish the family and surrender children to the centrally designed, and centrally directed, condition...	10
11	305	It had been denied to them for centuries by one sort of fanatics and now it was again being denied to them, on her own world, by a new form of fanatics, building on the insanities, cruelties and envy of their predecessors, utilizing the poisons of the past in the interests of unnatural, self-serving...	10
11	1026	"The female agents, who are commonly egotistical, petty, vain, self-seeking and mercenary, need not be informed of their eventual disposition.	10
12	295	Its solution was not essentially a consequence of a particular conditioning program, one of a possibly infinite number of such, or the inevitable result of some supposedly self-evident, axiomatic proposition, or some supposedly a priori theory, but of the world, the nature of things, of simple, empi...	10
12	330	In her heart, it seemed, there had begun to burn, even then, in a small way, small at first, like a tiny glowing flame, not fully understood, the longing to know the deepest and most profound of loves, the most complete of loves, the most helpless and self-surrendering of all loves, a slave's love.	10
13	23	Nor would he know that Ellen, in Laura's opinion, was little more than a petty, vain, stupid, self-important, ignorant, scheming, meaningless little bit of slave fluff.	10
13	554	That gave an entirely new dimension to her self-concept.	10
15	410	They are perhaps more frightened of themselves, and more in ideological and cultural bondage, than an emotionally freer woman, more in touch with her deeper self and feelings.	10
16	882	To be sure, if one's political programs require the devirilization, and consequent destruction, of the docile, obedient, duped male, then one must do all one can to confuse, deny, blur, and eliminate sexual differences, in this project having recourse to whatever distortions, lies, misrepresentation...	10
16	1425	Or, at least she did not think so, at least not on a conscious level! She was a bit frightened, however, and was uneasy, that her behavior may have belied her conscious intentions, that a deeper self, or a deeper need, or a deeper desire, without her knowledge, without her consent, had presented her...	10
17	323	Surely she must hide this self from the world! But it was hard to forget his hands.	10
17	604	But is that not a true slavery, a true holding of oneself in bondage, a hypocritical slavery, a lying, worthless slavery, a slavery less worthy than confessing to oneself one's own self, and allowing it to speak openly? How much inner conflict might be thus avoided! But she lay very still, torn in h...	10
17	657	"It is self-evident," said Ellen.	10
17	659	"It is self-evident that some should be free and some slaves.	10
17	660	It is self-evident that it is appropriate for some to be free, and appropriate for others to be slaves.	10
17	867	And how worthless and contemptible are slaves! Yes, how worthless and contemptible we are! How right of you to have held my lying self in contempt! How shrewdly you perceived my hypocrisy, my worthlessness! How fitting, how appropriate, how right for me then that I should be a slave, naked and chain...	10
18	387	Too, of course, as she is not a wife, but a chained slave, he may experiment with her, subjecting her, she willing or not, to a variety of erotic techniques, until he finds what she cannot resist, and what renders her helpless, what will drive her wild with passion, what might rob her of her last pa...	10
18	575	In another moment, she feared, every fiber in her vulnerable, enslaved body, the entirety of her vulnerable, enslaved self, might have yielded to him.	10
18	656	And then she had thought, as well, but is that not what we all want to do, please men? Too, she had sometimes marked various changes in their behavior, such as a self-conscious awkwardness, a sudden uneasiness, a stumbling of speech, unfamiliar gestures, of a surprisingly, rather obviously feminine ...	10
22	153	And certainly one of the most devastatingly, self-enhancing, exciting ways for a female to be before a male is to be before him in the dance.	10
22	164	It can survive only as a cannibalistic excrescence on the biological givens of reality, as the modality of a self-seeking, parasitical, politically active minority.	10
22	446	How magnificent he looked, seeing him now, once again, he in rich robes, at ease, rich, prosperous, secure, self-assured, splendid, more so than she had ever dreamed he might be.	10
22	493	How natural now were her carriage, her grace, her deferentiality! Was this the consequence of her training? In one sense, no, for her training had done little more than liberate the slave within her; in another sense, her training had, of course, improved, refined, and enhanced the slave self that h...	10
22	505	But here, at last, on Gor, her femininity, and deepest self, had been freed.	10
23	227	"You no longer kneel as an Earth woman embonded," he said, "but kneel now as a self-understanding, complete and total slave".	10
24	213	Each must try to be the slave she is, not another slave, but the slave she is, the deepest and most profound slave, which is her deepest self.	10
24	474	The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo...	10
25	38	And can it be that she behind me, so beautiful, is less beautiful than I? Surely we are all much the same, and yet men, the brutes, rank us, and will buy and sell us! As it pleases them! As goods! But, of course, as the goods we are! But might not I bring a higher price than any of these others? But...	10
25	50	It is the sort of device into which a proud free woman might be thrust but out of which creeps a humbled, self-acknowledged slave, asking only to be permitted to please, in any way the master might wish.	10
25	362	"Then you should have been penetrated with all the imperious ruthlessness of the callous, self-serving master.	10
25	586	Then Ellen recalled the haughtiness of the former free woman, her former superciliousness, her almost intolerable arrogance, how she had treated Ellen, though she, too, beneath her robes was no more than another female, and thus a fit slave for men! Had she no understanding of herself? Had she never...	10
25	697	What can compare with it? Compliance with pathological politicized prescriptions, designed to promote the power of unscrupulous, self-seeking misfits? All the social engineering, all the establishments in charge of controlling minds, all the power of the media melt away before the sight of a slave a...	10
26	688	It seems he escaped and made his way toward Ar, but somehow he seems unaware of the political realities in the city, and neither to understand nor know his true self".	10
26	1329	Such a world, that of bondage, is congenial to her deepest needs, and her sense of self.	10
27	1224	Behind the brandished facades of freedom, concealed within painstakingly erected ideological fortresses of denial, the victims of self-imposed starvations, a slaver might detect the ready, yearning slave.	10
27	3367	She is, in any event, whatever the nature of your guests, to be humble, self-effacing, and attentive.	10
29	230	It was as though he was prepared to let her believe that he might have been so naive as to have accepted her own self-regarding, trivializing assessment of her infractions, which was, of course, absurd, as she now grasped, but was yet at the same time making quite clear to her something that she sho...	10
30	476	The free woman must have her respect, her self-esteem, her dignity.	10

Book 28. (19 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	61	It had been self-confessed, self-acknowledged, self-proclaimed.	10
64	92	That motivation, too, we might speculate, might be particularly acute for a certain type of human female, perhaps one at war with herself, self-estranged, self-alienated, discontented with her sex, envying males, or such, as she often finds herself precluded in virtue of her slightness and body from...	10
1	356	Her own womanhood insists on this, as does her pride, her self-image, her concern for her own desirability, her sense of her own worth and value as a female.	10
1	666	To be sure, given his codes, Tarl Cabot would be less encouraged to indulge in fruitless speculation and laborious self-searching than biding his time, attempting to obtain a weapon, plotting an escape, and such.	10
1	798	I must be on my guard! The girl, meanwhile, was struggling to regain her former sense of self, somehow lost before this man.	10
1	923	It was the sort of thing which might well be left to an inward dialogue, say, that between a girl and her pillow, or her secret self.	10
1	1237	If not, she was sure she could soon make him so, by turning his own strength against him, by dividing him emotionally, and by arranging self-conflicts which would bring him, his own confused enemy, to an uncertain and anxious balance, where she might, by as little as a breath, so to speak, move him ...	10
1	1270	Could she be longing for a master? Was that what it was to be a woman, to be a slave? Then she, a civilized beauty of station, position, and class, the young, spoiled, pampered, proud, self-righteous scion of a pathological acculturation, put aside such thoughts as offensive and absurd, and consider...	10
2	64	Free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even ...	10
20	310	But then he asked himself, how could one desire such a female, one so haughty and contemptuous, one so obsessed with her own contrived, eccentric self-image, one so naively and pretentiously, so uncritically, imbued with her vanity, and the encumbrances of an unnatural, pretentious, forlorn civiliza...	10
22	90	And what of these new desires, such remarkable consequences of the liberation of her deepest self? Such desires! Keen, insistent, irresistible, overwhelming desires! How like torture, and ecstasy, they were! Already she sensed she could become their prisoner, as much as though weighty chains had bee...	10
22	167	"She is, too, as I understand it, a self-confessed slave".	10
50	27	But she is well aware that, given the man he is, she has much more to fear from his own possible self reproach than from the jibes of others.	10
51	60	"It would be such a very different world, such a tragic, self-denying, unfulfilled world".	10
51	90	When a society is seized by the ill-constituted, the miserable, the sick, the self-fearing, the weak, the haters, and such, it is natural they would mold, as they can, their world in their own pathological image.	10
52	13	They would be given the options of self-destruction or submission to a surgical alteration which would guarantee they would never pollute the folk by the sowing of inferior seed.	10
66	14	Further, it is clear to me, as well, that Lord Arcesilaus would not wish this monstrous act, this self slaughtering, to take place, and, indeed, that he would forbid it, and categorically, had he the opportunity to do so.	10
67	21	The hunters, of course, wary of the birds of death, it should be noted, would not go into the forests subjecting themselves to the self-imposed limitations to which they had been accustomed in the sport world.	10
79	693	"I do not think men alone are plagued by such self-deceit," said Cabot.	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	86	"—I suppose it is better for her to be frigid," said Pertinax, "in order that she may remain her own woman, retain her self-respect and self-esteem, her dignity".	10
22	89	Too, whereas she may well think well of herself, rejoice in herself, celebrate herself, love herself, as well as the master, for how can one love another if one does not love oneself, and so on, she is not likely to have self-respect and self-esteem in the senses that I think you understand such thi...	10
2	189	It is surely part of their self-identity, and not only in their own eyes, but in the eyes of others, as well.	10
3	785	Such women, vain and egotistical, self-serving, greedy and deceitful, dazzled by dreams of riches and power, would think little of betraying others, but it seldom occurred to them, for some reason, that they might, in their turn, be betrayed as easily.	10
5	151	To be sure, I was confident that the motivations of Priest-Kings were self-serving and prudential, not moral, or at least not moral as humans might understand such things.	10
5	507	"It seems he was injured in a fall, whilst hunting, lost his sense of self, wandered perhaps, no longer knew himself".	10
5	860	From the Gorean point of view, the face of a woman, you see, is the key to her self, the face, with its beauty, its softness, its special uniqueness, its myriad expressions, proclamatory of her feelings, her thoughts, and moods.	10
13	314	I and some others were taken in hand by mercenaries and, stripped, and self-pronounced as slaves, and neck-roped, were used by them as a ruse to approach the walls, they pretending to be citizens of Ar conducting us to impaling stakes.	10
15	88	What are you going to do with me?" She relates to free women, of course, quite differently, and there, kneeling before them, will commonly attempt to convey to them a sense of her own self-acknowledged worthlessness, as a pierced-ear girl.	10
16	54	This tends to effect cohesion, solidarity, self-image, and so on.	10
16	267	One stands close to one's self.	10
20	141	I gathered that Pertinax had no sense of what it was to be a Gorean slave, the absoluteness and wholeness of it, which the former Miss Wentworth now was, and had no inkling of the transformations which had taken place in her, the unfoldings, the revelations, the self-discoveries, the new understandi...	10
20	142	I supposed he would choose to project upon her an image of what he thought she should be, and, indeed, perhaps she, too, would struggle to deny her newly discovered deepest self, and conceal it behind a facade prescribed by an ugly and unnatural culture.	10
22	552	Why can you not accept her for what she is, not what you feel she should be? Are you only interested in women who have adopted, who have yielded to, who have succumbed to, the masculine values prescribed for them by an odious, inhuman, unnatural, self-alienating culture?" Pertinax regarded me angril...	10
25	40	Did Lord Nishida covet the shogunate? Is not power the drug of all drugs, the most dangerous of all, transcending the trivialities, the banalities, of chemistry, to which even the most professedly humble and self-effacing might be irremediably addicted? But perhaps he was loyal.	10
44	49	Indeed, had she not already been a slave, she would then, as thousands of other women, not self-proclaimed slaves, have become a slave.	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	321	A conspiracy was formed, abetted by propagandas contrived to paralyze and confuse the citizens of Ar, propagandas promoting self-doubt and guilt amongst her citizens for the successes and glories of Ar's past, propagandas including belittlings of danger, and representations of enemies as allies and ...	10
3	1475	"You were a haughty she-sleen," I said, "a hypocrite, a false friend, greedy, insolent, self-seeking, cowardly, dishonest, cruel, and power hungry".	10
4	95	"He is an enemy," said Seremides, "self-confessed, who pursued and attacked us, a scion of vengeful, hostile Cos.	10
5	117	We fired on you in self-defense.	10
19	33	Women, their master's properties, find their meaning, and their true self, in bondage.	10
20	260	How cruel I was to my own slaves, making them suffer in proxy for my own self-hatred.	10
21	508	It was, rather, the fuller beauty of a woman, which is brought out by bondage, a tonicity, a softness, a femininity, an aliveness, a sensitivity, a vulnerability, an awareness, in which her wars are done, her conflicts resolved, her self-torments ended, her inhibitions vanished, her identity secure,...	10
25	355	You would line your purse with gold and your station with power! No opportunity for wealth, for influence, for self-aggrandizement was neglected! We glorified our offices and despoiled the city, ruined our enemies and enriched our favorites, our pets and hirelings!" "But all did not continue to go w...	10
33	92	Once they burn, would she then trade her collar for a shallow deceit, the denial and falsification of her most profound reality, that of female, for the betrayal of nature, for the repudiation of her deepest self, for the inertnesses and tepidities of freedom? She has found herself, and is content.	10

Book 31. (31 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	289	"The slave," he said, "is not to be self-concerned, self-seeking, or self-interested.	10
7	731	I had gathered from the instructresses that such women, certainly those of high caste, of such exalted nobility, so taken with themselves, commonly prided themselves on their self-containment, their self-control, their freedom from many human weaknesses, their superiority to many of the elements com...	10
1	27	I do not feel self-conscious, as I am an animal.	10
4	125	Certainly I had hidden the books, I had thought well, in a trunk, covered with clothing, had confessed to no one that I had read such things, and was terribly self-conscious at having done so.	10
4	454	You are to be self-effacing.	10
5	43	Rawlinson was Gorean, or in league with Goreans, she had certainly been well placed to examine and assess a number of supercilious, vain, intelligent, highly cultured, beautiful young women, women conveniently gathered together, women nicely located and accessible, self-selected women, beauties all,...	10
5	376	"No!" "What," he asked, "if you should meet not the men of your world, boys, half-men, subdued men, furtive glancers, guilty, shamed, crippled men, men trained to betray their nature, taught to suppress their manhood, but other men, natural men, quiet, unpretentious, powerful, confident, self-assure...	10
7	50	The cultures which denied men and women to themselves, for their own purposes, in their own interests, inertial, self-perpetuating structures, productive of misery and alienation, were inventions of recent date, the mere tick of a clock, marking a moment in millenniums.	10
7	354	These suspicions and promptings, such thoughts, were not only incompatible with my dignity and self-respect, but incompatible with the conventions and proprieties in terms of which my life was to be managed.	10
8	115	Interestingly, as I was hooded, I was very little self-conscious in this march.	10
8	116	Had I not been hooded I would have been terribly, miserably, self-conscious.	10
8	403	But even in my righteous self-castigations, which I, of Earth, deemed I should proclaim, at least to myself, and even behind the fragile curtain of that resolve which I thought to interpose between what I supposed I should be and what I suspected I was, there seemed a subtle, elusive whispering, moc...	10
8	412	She has no self to defend, no honor to preserve, no person to strive to keep isolated and inviolate.	10
8	537	"One must do what one can! One must look out for one's self!" wept the light blonde.	10
8	1395	Hurrying behind my master, I did not feel as self-conscious as I might have otherwise.	10
10	83	He had said that he was Grendel, high Kur, once from the world of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, self-exiled from his world, that he might accompany and guard a woman, the Lady Bina, once, too, of that world.	10
10	220	In that small, beautiful body, slightly smaller than mine, there was a nature innocently prudential, vain, self-centered, independent, and calculating.	10
10	227	Might it be, somehow, familiar with the scarlet codes? The beast had informed me that it was self-exiled, and had accompanied the Lady Bina to this world, from their former world, as a guard.	10
12	166	How far I was now, a slave, from the cool, smug, haughty, so-self-satisfied Allison Ashton-Baker! "You perhaps," she said, "not I".	10
15	52	I had seen hundreds of Gorean men about, as I had scarcely on my world understood such men could exist, so large, strong, and powerful, so naturally self-satisfied, so unassumingly proud, and arrogant, possessive, aggressive men, unconfused and unconflicted, so clear-eyed, easy-moving, and large-han...	10
20	104	She had been too selfish, too egotistical, too self-centered.	10
27	77	Something approximating a small, self-sustaining world appeared to be involved.	10
27	99	The Cave was lit, where lit, by illuminated globes, which, interestingly, seemed self-sufficient.	10
30	14	I pulled down the camisk a little, self-consciously.	10
46	61	It was difficult to tell whether these impositions and restrictions were rationally justified in terms of intelligence available to Agamemnon and his inner circle or were the fruit of unproductive suspicions carried to the pitch of self-destructive madness.	10
47	77	Had he not behaved as I might have expected a man not of Gor, but of Earth, cunning, self-seeking, and devoid of honor, to behave? Of Gor, was he not more of Earth than Gor? I looked up, as I heard a ripple of awareness about me.	10
49	129	Gangs had been formed both for predation and for self protection.	10
52	230	"Only a self-centered, simple, shallow, naive little brute," he said, "a trivial, selfish little beast, of inferior character, who would steal a candy from a sister slave, if it might be done with impunity".	10
52	320	How he was looking upon me! He did think me unworthy, still, I realized, a liar, a would-be thief, a deceitful, self-centered, manipulative, worthless, little hypocrite.	10
53	19	Apparently, both Earth and Gor, at least for the time, owe their precarious security to the informed self-interest of Priest-Kings, who prefer for Kurii, on the whole at least, to be restricted to distant, relatively innocuous habitats, concealed amongst the remote "river of stones".	10
53	28	To my delight I learned that he had already contemplated commanding me to such a writing, for three reasons, a monitory reason, contributing to informing Goreans, and others, of danger; a personal reason for me, that I might be able to profit from the ventilative salubrity of self-expression, of nar...	10

Book 32. (20 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	144	I must not be myself, but another self, an external, dissatisfying, foreign self demanded of me! How I struggled to fulfill stereotypes alien to my deepest heart, to accept values which were not my own, to comply with rules and commands which would deny me to myself! Then I had found myself lying on...	10
3	18	Who are the social engineers? Who appoints them? What shall be engineered? Who reviews their work? Need anything be engineered? Why should anything be engineered? Who will engineer a flower, or truth? Whose fingers draw the secret strings? How gross, narrow, and transparently self-serving, are so ma...	10
3	42	Perhaps I thought it required of me, to comply with some image, alien to my deepest self, which, on my former world, I had been expected to project.	10
5	207	The Gorean male tends to be confident, imaginative, self-reliant, ambitious, aggressive, possessive, and dominating.	10
5	241	They bring me to my true self.	10
11	102	Who is accountable for the tragic routes leading to misery and want, to unhappiness and deprivation? Whence the monstrous distortions which would turn an animal against itself, and teach it to suspect, repudiate, and lacerate its own being? Who spoke to their own advantage, and proclaimed as truths ...	10
15	57	How far I was now from the arrogance of my former self, which, while desperately desiring bondage, had sought, in accord with the mechanistic, sterile prescriptions of my world, demanded of me, to deny these desires, and drive them from my mind! No longer were such options permitted me.	10
15	346	How could a man respect a woman who is no more than a helpless, spasmodic toy in his grasp, squirming and begging? Where was refinement, sophistication, self- control, dignity, pride, personhood, and respect? How could a woman respect herself when she reveals herself as no more than a helpless, unco...	10
15	640	How faraway now was my former world, my former self! I must reassert myself, I thought, wildly.	10
15	685	These putative informants had entertained what I supposed to be not only a dim, but a radically distorted, and, I hoped, a certainly extreme view, of Gorean free women, regarding them to be haughty, short-tempered, impatient, supercilious, rigid, demanding, unbending, arrogant, boastful, pretentious...	10
15	696	At the first opportunity, I thought, before it is too late, while I yet retain a shred of my former self, I must attempt to escape! But who would want to escape, I thought.	10
17	22	How it betrayed me with its health and need, with its eagerness, its responsiveness, its helplessness, and vitality! I must be at war with it! How could I be myself in a collar? And how could I be myself other than in a collar! In my heart I knew I belonged in the collar, but I was determined to den...	10
17	78	How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl...	10
17	100	One of the sorriest fates of a kajira would be to find herself the serving slave of such a self-centered, regal, haughty monster.	10
39	433	She is then a self- pronounced slave.	10
40	36	Too, interestingly, the intelligent woman is likely to be much more in touch with her deepest self, her needs, her profound wants and heart, than a stupid woman.	10
41	30	Whereas there are doubtless terrors associated with the collar, there is also a certain freedom, from our own self-imprisonments.	10
50	794	You may be beautiful, but you are small, petty, cruel, pretentious, self-centered, and a liar, and most obviously, now a slave".	10
52	173	It is usual for a slave girl, if she is permitted to stand, to stand so before free persons, humbly, head down, self-effacingly, respectfully.	10
54	176	Let them tremble and hide, and fear even to think of such; let them denounce such men, if it pleases them, and in denouncing them denounce themselves, if there yet remains any such self within them to denounce.	10

Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	21	Lost in self-pity and self-reproach I had risked much for nothing, risked much for no more than a meaningless gesture.	10
30	500	"Dullness, inertness, a lack of feeling, insensibility, passivity, dormancy, the suppression of nature, self-fear, self-denial, frigidity, torpidity, and such, is acceptable in a free woman," he said.	10
2	169	Sick with grief, and pain, and misery, disturbed and distracted, I had hoped for little more than the self-indulgent gratification of a meaningless sacrifice.	10
12	394	It interested me how one can tell, almost infallibly, from the voice, the diction, the sense of self-acceptance and authority, the rank and station of a Pani speaker.	10
19	238	Similarly, as she would not be new to bondage, it seemed unlikely that her indiscretion might be attributed to self-consciousness, or shyness, let alone modesty, which is not permitted to female slaves, no more than to verr and tarsk.	10
21	127	On the other hand, in his relationship with me, Lord Yamada was his usual charming self, and gave not the least indication of concern.	10
31	74	"An unreliable concourse of self-seeking dolts and bumpkins," said Yasushi.	10
54	9	As the iron dragon was in flight, it seemed all was well from his point of view, that of the self-proclaimed Shogun of the Islands.	10
54	146	"The device would doubtless self-destruct and simultaneously destroy its unwise interrogator".	10
61	1229	"A pathetic weakling," she said, "shallow, manipulable, and eager to please, the puppet of a pathological, unnatural culture, a patriot of self-betrayal, one who prides himself on treason to his own blood, the creature of what he is told, one who will not think, one who will not raise his eyes to th...	10

Book 34. (19 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	252	"Goreans," he said, "regard the women of Earth as self-­acknowledged, self-confessed, slaves.	10
53	292	How right she was there, at his feet! How fulfilled she was to be a well-mastered slave! How profound were her slave needs! And on Gor, freed of the walls and fences, of the hobbles and lacerating wires, the closures and stern barriers, the prescriptions and prohibitions, the confinements and cruelt...	10
68	126	I suspected it took longer for some women, particularly Gorean free women, with their pompous, exaggerated self-image, their ponderous, inculcated sense of self-importance, to realize that there was now a collar on their neck.	10
2	141	"You are bright, but self-centered and shallow.	10
2	234	"You are vain and shallow, self-absorbed, pretentious, rootless, a shred of paper in a park, cast about pointlessly by the wind.	10
2	238	Your relationships to others, such as they are, are dictated by instrumental concerns, those of convenience and profit, by what use they might be to you to further your own projects and enhance your own meretricious self-image.	10
6	481	How important clothing is to a woman! How much her sense of self, her sense of importance, of worth, of status, of what she is, depends on her garmenture! But we were naked now, stark naked, save for the tunics of slaves.	10
6	483	What would this new clothing do to us? How, in the tunic of a slave, can one be other than a slave? Do we not become congruent with our clothing? Do we not fit ourselves to our clothing? Do we not learn our self-image from our clothing? Do we not think of ourselves in terms of our clothing? Do we no...	10
7	418	I resolved, after he had left, in the midst of conflicting emotions, despite my profound inclinations to the contrary, as I was beginning to sense what I might be, and perhaps had always been, to behave in a way which certain militant factions in my society, with their self-serving agendas, might ap...	10
8	285	Nature, unlike self-serving political programs, is not the product of ideologically motivated committees; who would seize control of education and the means of communication, to bend innocent, trusting children, and even unwitting populations, to their views; nature is an obstacle to such programs; ...	10
9	135	In this way, self-esteem, pride, and high intelligence tends to be spread rather evenly throughout the population, rather than being drained, over generations, into a limited number of professions.	10
12	6	What a total, radical, cataclysmic transformation this wreaks in one's being, in one's self, in one's heart, and understanding.	10
15	73	More importantly, one supposes, a number of biological and psychological elements contribute to this matter, having to do with nature, sexual dimorphism, the resolution of ambivalences, fulfillment, self-discovery, and such.	10
26	213	Such attentions, coupled with the very clear knowledge that one is a property, and may be bought and sold, gives one a sense of self very different from that likely to be entertained by the free woman, protected by her robes and dignity.	10
30	301	I trusted he had not noticed this inadvertent self-betrayal of my needs.	10
30	402	Did not all know that? Might one not be mocked for such a weakness? Would that not call forth laughter in the taverns and exercise yards? How that would lessen a man in his own eyes! How then could he respect himself? Did he fear some concession or compromise that might diminish or tarnish his cheri...	10
34	157	"And that humans, suitably armed, can be as dangerous as any other aggressive, stupid, self-seeking territorial form of life, similarly armed".	10
46	208	"I cannot abide my own image in the mirror, and you would confront me with a living mirror, that I be reminded of my own misery, of my own appearance, which I regard with loathing and self-disgust".	10
53	206	"Hurry, loathsome creature," he snarled, "bring your sorry self here, taking it from the view of a high Kur, the noble Surtak, servitor of mighty Lord Agamemnon.	10

Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	103	One tries to find oneself, not a picture or image of oneself imposed by others, not the self you are told to be, but one's true self, the authentic self.	10
13	43	One might even feel a little sorry for such a fellow, so miserable, so stung with remorse, so self-castigating, and self-torturing.	10
40	28	Many slaves, it must be understood, love their masters with a love that few free women, with their concern for status, self-image, self-containment, balance, commensuration, and proportion, could equal.	10
5	8	I was startled, because Adraste had seemed, earlier, so cool, so self-assured, so superior and precise.	10
10	121	Would they not be the ones who hastily, in terror of recognizing even the suspicion of their own possible manhood, lift a hoping, kneeling woman to her feet and shame her, lecturing her on what she should do and be, as though they knew more than she what it was to be a woman, lecturing her on how sh...	10
11	323	Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una...	10
12	49	The slave is free to be uncritically, unquestioningly sexual, free to be her vital, natural, needful, uninhibited self.	10
24	243	I had not seen his true self.	10
38	71	Women were victims, too, being unwittingly estranged from their own natures, taught to be what they were not; instructed to rejoice in their own misery, to see riches in their own self-denial and poverty.	10
46	17	Might it not be clever to pose as one's own imposter, to rob and burn, pretending to be one's own self? How cunning to seize loot for oneself and meanwhile feign outrage over the supposed exploits of a masquerading other! I knelt and served paga to a table, lowering my head and extending my arms.	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	52	It would be her best policy to overlook certain modest infractions of her self-seeking laws, such as denying the means of effective self-defense to subject populations to better rule them, and keep peace in the islands.	10
2	53	"What state would be so mad as to deny the means of self-defense to its citizenry?" asked Clitus.	10
21	54	His self-seeking minions manage much.	10
45	47	If something is to be feared more than the enemy, I think it should be that one might, in a moment of terror or self-betrayal, fail to do one's duty.	10
45	179	History is doubtless replete with acts of self-sacrifice and heroism, with last stands and doomed charges, with gestures, valiant, gracious, and noble, of which none have heard or will ever hear".	10