14 Quotes by Anne Desclos

The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

I wasn’t young, I wasn’t pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn’t really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.