“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“Place thy foot upon thy slave, Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams; Among the shadows, dark and grave, Thy extended body softly… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Why not?" she said, "and take note of what I am about to say to you. Never feel secure with the woman you love, for there are more dangers in woman's nature than you imagine. Women are neither as good as their admirers and defenders maintain, nor as bad as their enemies make them out to be. Woman's character is… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
