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- I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and…
- I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
- I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his…
- I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite…
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him,…
- Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,…
- I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
- Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves…
- I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter…
- Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
- I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes…
- I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a…
- What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to…
- I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more…
- I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires…
- Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks…
- I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came…
- I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from…
- I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake…
- How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
- I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
- I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I…
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