Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

Dreams are essential to life.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.