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“[...] but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

tags: power, slavery

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“When lust descends, discretion, common sense and wisdom fly off and what may seem cunning concealment to one in the grip of passion looks like transparently clumsy idiocy to everyone else.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

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“Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

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“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

tags: funny, greek, humor, humour, language, myth, mythology, myths, pronounciation

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“This is what free people never understand. A slave isn't a person who's being treated as a thing. A slave is a thing, as much in her own estimation as in anybody else's.”
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