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Quotations: E

These quotations are not intended to constitute advice, an argument, or evidence for or against anything. This section is just a bit of fun! Please don't take it too seriously! That a quote is included here should not be taken to imply that it is endorsed, and it certainly should not be taken to imply that the source of the quote is endorsed.

“A temporarily submissive female may require a very great effort of will to convince herself, even on the most fleeting and insubstantial level, that a very short man with a squeaky voice who keeps mispronouncing the Words of Power is actually a confident and capable superman, whose jaw is firm, whose word is law, whose intentions are not to be flouted, and whose iron-muscled thighs constitute an altar on which all sins will be washed clean. That it can be achieved at all is probably due to the overmastering qualities of fundamental sexual desires. (‘Close your eyes and imagine he's Sean Connery.’)”
       - Edward Anthony: Thy Rod and Staff, Chapter 9.

“Marriage must begin with a leaving of all other relationships in order to establish a permanent relationship between one man and one woman.”
       - Ed Wheat and Gloria Okes Perkins: Love Life For Every Married Couple

“Most women . . . enjoy the display of manly force even when it turns against themselves.”
       - Edward Westermarck: The Future of Marriage in Western Civilisation (1936)

“A woman, an ass, and a walnut tree, bring the more fruit the more beater they be.”
      - English proverb (16th Century)

“‘You may look like a boy and behave like a boy, but you're a girl all the same. And like it or not, girls have got to be taken care of.’”
      - Enid Blyton: Five Go On a Hike Together, 1951 (Julian to Georgina)

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.”
      - Erica Jong

“At times, it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”
      - Erica Jong

“We are now beginning to see the sexiest, strongest, and most empowering part of being submissive: that it can be an expression of strength of character to bow down and surrender to love and passion. This is my idea of feminism.”
      - Erin Cressida Wilson: Secretary, a screenplay (Introduction)

“What is submission exactly? What if submission were not a deviant behavior, but were just another form of sexuality, like homosexuality? What if someone could actually ‘own’ their submissive tendencies and come out as a masochist? After all, there is great power in being weak and in admitting frailty. This is something not often applauded in American culture, but there is a long tradition of this in Catholicism and many Eastern religions. The monks wore thorns on their temples, and the nuns sewed them inside their clothing to show their devotion. The idea of confessing, exposing, stripping, and reducing to the essentials has a long spiritual and sexual tradition. To be punished, to do penance, is something that can be a strength.”
      - Erin Cressida Wilson: Secretary, a screenplay (Introduction)

“I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”
      - Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

“He who knocks his wife about thoroughly will be forgiven a hundred sins.”
      - Estonian proverb

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