Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

A woman’s elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

I need to work on everything.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'