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“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”

Men Made Given Feet Danger He Man Promise Slave Command Obedience

Author:George Farquhar

“This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.”

Fantasy Feet Treats Slave Passionate

Author:Thalia

“Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.”

“When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.”

Men Humans Ends Justice Feet Eternal Slave Chains Necks Contempt Tyrants Citizenship Free Man

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Ifs Stories Girl Hurt Wife Feet Dangerous Grew Grew Up Adults Independence Slave Bounds China Rage Chinese Heroines

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.”

Hands Feet Worship Bird Slave Spread Chains Fallen Belly Craving Worship God Snares Gluttony Fetters

Author:Saadi

“This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.”

Feet Ambition Fortune Slave Graves Posture Gravy

Book:Further fables for our time

Source: Further fables for our time

“God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head to be his mental superior, and did take him from that which is nearest his heart, that he might love her, and that which is under his arm, that he might protect her.”

Heart Might Sides Feet Arms Protect Slave Superiors Servant Adam

Author:Matthew Henry

“The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.”

Way Looks Values Strong Black Feet Changed Slave Tall Look At Me Black Beauty

Author:Leslie Jones

“All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!”

Knows Men Feet Mankind Slave Charm

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.”

Way Space Feet Cost Slave Connected Active Boat Stations Trading Virginia Transport Fractions Rail Columbus Traders Montgomery Slave Trade

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Life Ends Might Faith Freedom Feet Duty Slave Dare Have Faith Dungeons Might Makes Right

Author:Abraham Lincoln