"I think that submissiveness can [be] and is……" — Anne Desclos
"I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them."
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Anne Desclos
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19 Quotes by Anne Desclos
Anne Desclos has 19 quotes on this site.
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Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
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Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never…
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I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains…
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Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until…
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I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
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By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
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Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a…
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I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly…
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I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I…
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To love is to live on the precipice.
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Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness…
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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
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Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must…
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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
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This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform…
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