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Associated with freedom is standing, respect, dignity, prestige, status, privileges, and power, and acknowledged claims and rights. One is a person, and, in favored cases, a citizen, and may even possess a Home Stone. The Gorean free woman has a place in society that is far above that of the "free woman" of Earth. She is the pride and treasure of a city, to be elevated and honored, to be exalted and revered, to be defended to the death, unless she should fall slave, in that case, of course, she is then only another animal, to be bought and sold as the stock she then is. Naturally free women, in most cities, in their frustration, as would be expected, make the most of their prestige, caste rights, intelligence, beauty, and such, exploiting such things ruthlessly to consolidate and improve their position in society. Not at the feet of men, and perhaps resentful of that fact, they surround themselves with a mystique of preciousness and power designed to awe, subordinate, reduce, and tame men, perhaps to punish men for denying them the rights and hopes of their frustrated womanhood. In any event, these things are complicated and, I suspect, scarcely understood, as the currents involved are deep and not always easily detected. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )