Anne Desclos Quotes

France, Writer
September 23, 1907 – April, 27, 1998.

Anne Cécile Desclos was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, and is best known for her erotic novel Histoire d'O (The Story of O),

Also known as Translator, Journalist, Novelist

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Anne Desclos
- Pleasure
- Tears
- Stage
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

Anne Desclos
- Joy
- Sense
- Grandeur

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.

Anne Desclos
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.

Anne Desclos
- Woman
- Give
- Dominance
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.

Anne Desclos
- Give
- Proof
- Belonged
I think that submissiveness can be and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Anne Desclos
To love is to live on the precipice.

Anne Desclos
- Live
- Love
- For Him
Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Anne Desclos
- Men
- Expect
- Revere

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

Anne Desclos
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.

Anne Desclos
- Pretty
- Young
- Weapon