Quote by Frank Norris

“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage.”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“The greatest power over a man is his desire to please a particular woman.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“A man´s desire is a powerful thing. It can reduce a strong man to nothing. When he sees a woman who fascinates him, he…

— Alma Katsu

“He had her alone in the garden. Her moist lips. The moonlight in her eyes. A lesser man would be merely tempted. A greater…

— Diana Holquist

“Such lavish devotion made me proud to think that the wealth was all my own which drove you to my gate. But vanity such…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Whenever a woman requires too many things from a man, he’ll resent it. Let him give what he wants to give freely; then observe…

— Sherry Argov

“Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a certain length…

— Henry James

“The fierceness of man rules the fates of women.”

— Elder Edda

“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…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and…

— Susan B. Anthony

“The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that…

— Dalene Matthee