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Quotes About Dominance

We all hated him. We were all his bitches. Our motives lie in the past. It's a dark room with the flayed corpses of animals in it. Nobody in their right mind wants to go there.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
With the rape and prostitution in which it participates, pornography institutionalizes the sexuality of male supremacy, which fuses the eroticization of dominance and submission with the social construction of male and female. Gender is sexual.
~ Catharine A. MacKinnon
Male and female are created through the erotization of dominance and submission.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
I won't marry you!" she cried frantically. He threw her a look charged with martial arrogance. "You will be my wife, little one. My way or yours, in the end, it will be so.
~ Catherine Anderson
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
~ Catherine the Great
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Histories are instruments of oppression.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Shut up," hissed the Marquess. "I chose it, you miserable, rouged-up idiots! Why shouldn't I have a boy's title? People listen to boys! They fear boys—they fear a King and hope a Queen will show them mercy! Why shouldn't I be a Marquess? I rule the world! I say how things are pronounced! I say what belongs to boys and what doesn't!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Secret knowledge equals power, with the end result being control.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Alcoff calls this self-examination "white double-consciousness," which involves seeing "themselves through both the dominant and the nondominant lens, and recognizing the latter as a critical corrective truth.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Alcoff calls this self-examination "white double-consciousness," which involves seeing "themselves through both the dominant and the nondominant lens, and recognizing the latter as a critical corrective truth." But
~ Cathy Park Hong
The Great Bitch is the deadly female, a worthy opponent for the omnipotent hero to exercise his powers upon and through. She is desirous, greedy, clever, dishonest, and two jumps ahead all the time. The hero may either have her on his side and like a lion-tamer sool her on to his enemies, or he may have to battle for his life at her hands.
~ Germaine Greer
Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large
~ Gerry Bartlett
When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.
~ Gilbert Arenas
Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…
~ Gilbert Frankau
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
~ Gilbert Murray
There again, the acceleration of history is the job of ruthless men.
~ Giles Foden