"'What are my duties?' I asked.
'Exquisite beauty and absolute obedience,' said Sucha."---Slave Girl, p. 261
"'You would like to know,' he asked, 'what will happen to you then?'
I nodded.
'Curiosity,' he said, 'is NOT becoming in a Kajira.'
I did not understand him.
'You might be beaten for it,' he said."---Captive, p. 14
"A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. A Gorean slave, incidentally, always addresses free men as 'Master,' and all free women as 'Mistress.'"---Captive, p. 73
"When one who is a slave strikes a free person, the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceeded by lengthy torture."---Assassin, p. 74
"'What do you think should be her punishment?' asked Callimachus of me.
'If she is guilty,' I said, 'whatever you wish, as she is a slave.' This was in full accord with Gorean law. Indeed, anything, for whatever reason, or without a reason, may be done to a slave."---Guardsman, p. 115
"'Paga!' called the standing man. 'Paga!' A blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk-bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl."---Rogues, p. 78
"In most cities, even the touching of money, unless in an authorized situation, is prohibited to slaves."---Dancer, p. 238
"He extended the goblet to me. 'Drink,' he said, offering me the cup. I looked at the rim of the cup. I shook with terror. 'A slave girl dares not touch with her lips the rim of that cup which has been touched with the lips of her master,' I whispered. 'Excellent,' said Verna."---Captive, p. 302
"'In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal. You have no name in your own right. You may be collared and leashed. You may be bought and sold, whipped, treated as the master pleases, disposed of as he sees fit. You have no rights whatsoever. Legally you have no more status than a tarsk or vulo. Legally, literally, you are an animal.'"---Explorers, p. 316 |
