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Quotes About Submissive

more of a trend than a 'kult' – a set of wealthy feminists who suddenly found it cool to be submissive because they thought that no one had done it before, and because they could. So they became 24/7 subs (on finding the right master), and played the role enthusiastically.
~ Unknown
a padded, black leather spanking bench. About two and a half feet high, two feet wide and three feet in length, it was designed so a sub could drape their upper body comfortably over the bench, ass and cunt on full display. Bondage straps were spaced at intervals along both the bench and the leg rests on either side, allowing for complete immobilization. An added feature he especially liked was the padded armrests at the front of the bench, wrist cuffs at the ready.
~ Claire Thompson
lost herself in the sensations as she tumbled, not down, but up, up, up into the stars. She was floating in that rarified submissive space some called flying. She was dimly aware he was still striking her, but she no longer felt any pain. She drifted deep inside the silent perfection of her personal nirvana, her brain finally silent, joy permeating every fiber of her being…
~ Claire Thompson
To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.
~ Candace Cameron Bure
My life is not as dramatic as it is depicted in the shows. I am not at all submissive. I am free-spirited.
~ Sriti Jha
People want women to be so submissive when we got a voice of our own, and we can do everything these dudes can do.
~ Latto
I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
~ Lela Loren
Esta gente es muy mansa y muy temerosa, desnuda como dicho tengo, sin armas y sin ley
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Gallimard: It's... a pure sacrifice. He's unworthy, but what can she do? She loves him... so much. It's a very beautiful story. Song: Well, yes, to a Westerner. Gallimard: Exuse me? Song: It's one of your favotite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man.
~ David Henry Hwang
It was because she was too yielding, too frightened of unpleasant scenes, that she had allowed herself to be dominated and repressed.
~ D.E. Stevenson
We are so very 'umble.
~ Charles Dickens
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.
~ Lisa Kleypas
And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.
~ Jill Lepore
Drew's a total wimp.
~ Jonathan Scott
I am pathetically law-abiding.
~ Caitlin Moran
They could hear no words, only the tilt and shape of voices: their mother's, still so curiously shrouded, so submissive, so gentle; it seemed to ask questions and to accept answers.
~ James Agee
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. (James 3:17)
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If you look away by looking down it means you're submissive. If you slowly look away to the side, it means you're not looking for trouble, but you're not afraid of him either. It's that subtle, but that real.
~ Marc MacYoung
As a rule, however, we do not respect our children. We try to force them to follow us without regard to their special needs. We are overbearing with them, and above all, rude; and then we expect them to be submissive and well-behaved, knowing all the time how strong is their instinct of imitation and how touching their faith in and admiration of us.
~ Maria Montessori
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.
~ Marilyn French
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was the Novgorodians who invited the Norse Princes to come and rule the land; and it was the Novgorodians who were their least submissive subjects.
~ Unknown