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Quotes About Dominance

Goddamn it," Zane murmured, raking a hand through his hair. What had happened was his fault—he had failed to be the dominant that the submissive obviously wanted and most certainly needed. Instead of taking control he had relinquished it and thus had probably ruined any chance with her.
~ Sharon Davis
Not only did we get invited to the party that year, we took over the dance floor.
~ Shaun Tomson
Once you realize all our assumptions about power are created by the powerful, you understand it must be changed. You rethink power. Not the power that is desire, or dominance. The power that is strength.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan
Once you realize all our assumptions about power are created by the powerful, you understand it must be changed. You rethink power. Not the power that is desire, or dominance. The power that is strength." He smashed
~ Shawna Yang Ryan
He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.
~ Shayla Black
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet, and its essential message is necrophilia. All of the so-called religions legitimating patriarchy are mere sects subsumed under its vast umbrella/canopy. All— from buddhism and hinduism to islam, judaism, christianity, to secular derivatives such as freudianism, jungianism, marxism, and maoism— are infrastructures of the edifice of patriarchy.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
There should be no necessary contradiction between recognizing the harms women suffer from male dominance as well as their courage and resourcefulness in dealing with them. Otherwise feminist critique might have to be abandoned altogether on the grounds that it is insulting to women.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
the work of sexologists and the development of sex therapy are all instances of how men's power over women was to be supported and managed through the regulation of marital sex. Sex, in this scheme of things, was not a natural and spontaneous seeking after pleasure by men and women, but a regulatory mechanism designed and constructed to enforce male dominance and female submission.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
When mainstream male gay sexual practice eroticises dominance and submission then male gay s/m has to be explained in the context of the construction of male sexuality.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
As the world goes," an Athenian envoy instructs the representative of a city that refused to submit, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
We're a 'we' now?" "I thought I made that clear the other night when I tied you face down to the bed and fucked ya proper
~ Shelly Laurenston
You do know I'm the one person who can shoot you and make it look like justifiable homicide?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Uh…tell me, Mace. Have you actually let her in on the fact she's yours now?" "No. But I will. She'll simply have to deal with it." Smitty sighed. "So says the King of the Jungle.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Then it sounds to me like you love her. And if you love her, then tell her she belongs to you and she needs to get over it. Show her who's in charge. That's what I did with Sara." Zach seemed less than pleased when they all laughed so hard Conall actually fell off the bed.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Ric stared up at the lion siblings. How Lock hadn't killed them already, he didn't know. If nothing else, Ric would have had them…managed by now. They'd be alive, but in Siberia.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Mitch grabbed hold of the car keys and held them over his head so Sissy couldn't get them. She, in turn, grabbed his nuts and twisted until he gave her the damn keys.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.
~ Eric Gagne
A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
~ Frans de Waal
The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.
~ Frans de Waal
They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.
~ Isaac Asimov
I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.
~ Jack Johnson