It's all captivity
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— Qual, minha gente!— ponderou a velha creoula,— tudo é captiveiro.
'Come now, my people,' the old creole weighed in, 'it's all captivity.'
Joaquina cuts off the whole debate with the oldest wisdom in the room: field or wheel, watched or unwatched, 'it's all captivity.' The distinctions the younger women cling to are luxuries; the one fact underneath them is that none of them is free. She speaks the book's thesis in four words.
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