I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.
Anne DesclosBy my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
Anne DesclosStory 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.
Anne DesclosO was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.
Anne Desclos