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

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

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

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

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.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

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.