I could love no author more than I love Marquis De Sade.

Mar 27, 2006 17:28


"I abhor mankind. . . . I strongly doubt . . . whether at any moment in the day I for my part am not animated by the most vehement impulse, or caressing some black scheme, to cause harm to humankind ; there is no more execrable species. Be he powerful, then man is dangerous . . . Is he puny, weak, woebegone? then how base he is, how vile, how disgusting within and without! Oh, many a time have I blushed at having been born in the midst of such creatures. My one comfort is that Nature loathes them no less than I, for she destroys them daily ; I wish only that I had as many means as she at my command for contriving their undoing ; had I, I'd wipe the lot off the face of the earth."

though Anais Nin does have her moments:

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 want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. 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 don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.
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