All relationships are based on power. Domination and submission. There is no other way. No equality, no congeniality, no shared domain. There is only one king in a kingdom.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.[Wer Lust daran empfindet, anderen Schmerz in sexueller Relation zu erzeugen, der ist auch befähigt, den Schmerz als Lust zu genießen, der ihm aus sexuellen Beziehungen erwachsen kann. Ein Sadist ist immer auch gleichzeitig ein Masochist.]
A man doesn’t want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he does for her. He doesn’t want to feel owned, body and soul. It’s the damned possessive attitude! This man is mine – he belongs to me! That’s the sort of thing I can’t stick – no man could stick! He wants to get away – to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn’t want her to own him.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?” “Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.”
