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.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

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.

Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

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.

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