Alice Borchardt

You’re frightening me” “be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid”

A hint of ‘I’m so pleased that you strong, handsome, stalwart men are going to stand between my flower-like beauty and danger,’ wouldn’t hurt either

Don’t flaunt your ignorance or try to insult me. I don’t suffer fools gladly and insults irritate me

Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?

And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men

It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us

I apologize.” “you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.”

Love is important, and woman being shrewd bargainers probably know fame is not worth much. I’d much rather have something I can spend, eat, or love, thank you very much

Pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable

You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place”

Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors

Then he turned and walked away, and I gazed after him in sorrow. “Don’t look so, girl. He’s the first to fall at your feet; he will not be the last”