It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.