Marina Warner Quotes

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Deals, flattery, threats and promises are part of the process, certainly; do not flinch from any opportunity to scheme and plot, however sordid and demeaning it may appear.

In 'Drama,' I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!