Formidable Weapon Quotes by Anne Desclos

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• Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
• Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself…
• 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…
• Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory…
• Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of…
• I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
• By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
• Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time,…
• I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I…
• I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his…
• To love is to live on the precipice.

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