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

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

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

As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

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.

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

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