Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I do like to belong to a man.

The mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.