The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

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.

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

Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.

To love is to live on the precipice.