Anne Desclos Quotes
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.
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Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
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A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.
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The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.
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I think that submissiveness can be and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.
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To love is to live on the precipice.
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Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.