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

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

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

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 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.

To love is to live on the precipice.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.