"...the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not, to the notion that it is of great importance to know how to please men; accordingly, even girls who will be free companions, and never slaves, learn the preparation and serving of exotic dishes, the arts of walking, and standing, and being beautiful, the care of a man's equipment, the love dances of their city, and so on." Priest-Kings of Gor page 67.

'Aren't you slave?' asked one of the men nearby, a Warrior, looking closely. Elizabeth slapped him rather hard and he staggered back, 'No, I am not, she informed him." Assassin of Gor page 74

"Sexual heat, it might be mentioned, is looked upon in free women with mixed feelings; it is commanded, however, in a slave girl. Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must fight passion; the slave girl, of course, is not entitled to this privilege; it is denied to her, both by her society and her Master; while the free woman must remain cool and in control of herself, even in the arms of her companion, to avoid being truly "had", the slave girl is permitted to no such luxury; her control is in the hands of her Master, and she must, upon the mere word of her Master, surrender herself, writhing, to the humiliating heats of a degraded slave-girl's ecstasy. Only when a woman is owned can she be fully enjoyed." Tribesmen of Gor page 17

"What did you think of Miles of Argentum?' asked Ligurious. "I thought he seemed very strong and handsome," I said. "I see," smiled Ligurious. "Incidentally," he said, "would you like for me to have Susan whipped for you?" "Why?" I asked. At the words of Ligurious there was a small sound from the chain of Susan. She shrank back, cowering beside the throne. "Surely you saw her," said Ligurious, "when she knew herself to be under the gaze of the sleen from Argentum. She was dripping to the tiles before him.  "Forgive me. I did not mean to offend your sensibilities. She is only a slave," I said, lightly. Surely I could not admit to Ligurious that I, too, had been made uneasy by the presence of the ambassador from Argentum." Kajira of Gor pages 94-5

"Mistress might, for example, in the presence of a man she wishes to arouse, take a larger bite from a fresh fruit, and look at the man over the fruit, letting juice, a tiny trickle of it, run at the side of her mouth." "But why would I wish to arouse a man?" I asked. The girl looked at me, puzzled. "Perhaps the needs of Mistress might be much upon her," she said. "Perhaps she might wish to be taken and overwhelmed in his arms, and forced to surrender to him." "I do not understand," I said, as though horrified. "That is because Mistress is free," she said. I had understood only too well, of course. But I was horrified to even think such thoughts." Kajira of Gor pages 62-3

Paradoxically, the Gorean, who seems to think so little of women in some respects, celebrates them extravagantly in others. The Gorean is extremely sensitive to beauty; it gladdens his heart, and his songs and art are often paeans to its glory." Outlaw of Gor page 54

"'I suppose,' I said, 'I should be pleased that you did not order me to strip completely and kneel before you.' 'You are, of course,' he said, 'a free woman.' 'Suitable disciplines and punishments may be arranged for a free woman,' he said, 'suitable to her status and dignity.' 'I am sure of it,' I said, ironically." Kajira of Gor page 174

"The Older Tarl, who had been my mentor in arms years ago in Ko-ro-ba, had once told me the story of a free woman, desperately in love with a warrior, who, in the presence of her family was entertaining him, and whose wrists, unconsciously, had assumed the position of a slave. It was only with difficulty that she had been restrained from hurling herself in mortification from one of the high bridges." Priest Kings of Gor page 35

"'We are free women. Men, some sorts of men, will save us. Men, some sorts, cannot so much as stand to see a tear in a woman's eye. To such men it is unthinkable that we might bear the consequences of our actions.' `Do you think I am such a man?' I asked. `No,' she said, `else I would have petitioned redemption from you.' `Men such as those of whom you speak,' I said, `those who are so solicitous, so kindly, those who are so eager to render you succor, who will strive so desperately to help you, and please you, do they stir you deeply in your belly?' `I am a free woman.' she said. `We do not consider such things.'" Renegades of Gor pages 64-5

"Goreans, in their simplistic fashion, often contend, categorically, that man is naturally free and woman is naturally slave. But even for them the issues are far more complex than these simple formulations would suggest. For example, there is no higher person, nor one more respected, than the Gorean free woman.. Goreans do believe, however, that every woman has a natural master or set of masters, with respect to whom she could not help but be a complete and passionate slave girl. These men occur in her dreams and fantasies. She lives in terror that she might meet one in real life." Hunters of Gor page 311.

"Gorean women, whether slave or Free, know that their simple presence brings joy to men, and I cannot but think that this pleases them." Outlaw of Gor page 54.

"If and when a free woman should utter this, in the Gorean culture, of course, this sort of thing is very significant. Indeed, in some cities such things as kneeling before a man, or addressing him as "Master" effects legal imbondment on the female, being interpreted as a gesture of submission." Players of Gor page 139

"The free woman," I said, "lies down and waits to see what will happen. The female slave kneels beside her master, and begs to please him. The free woman deems it sufficient that she should exist, the slave girl, on the other hand, is expected not only to exist, but to excel; indeed, she fears only, commonly, that she may not be sufficiently marvelous for her master. It is little wonder that most men find the free woman, in her inertness, her ignorance and arrogance, boring. It is little wonder that most men prefer to order her rival to their furs, the helpless, collared, curvaceous, lascivious, feminine slave." Savages of Gor page 197

"Women of Gor, free and slave alike, tend to respond to a great variety of properties in a male, few of which are directly correlated with facial symmetries. Among such properties are initiative, will, command, intelligence, strength, and power, in short, with characteristics appropriate to that of a master. And women, too, often hope for, welcome, and respond to such things as tenderness, gentleness and softness." Magicians of Gor page 112