Monique Wittig's Dank Audio Stash The Category of Sex by Monique Wittig (1976, 1982)
"Oh, expresses a virile idea. Virile or at least masculine. At last a woman who admits it! Who admits what? Something that women have always till now refused to admit (and today more than ever before). Something that men have always reproached them with: that they never cease obeying their nature, the call of their blood, that everything in them, even their minds, is sex."
Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery, preface to The Story of O by Pauline de Reage
"In the course of the year 1838, the peaceful island of Barbados was rocked by a strange and bloody revolt. About two hundred Negroes of both sexes, all of whom had recently been emancipated by the Proclamation of March, came one morning to beg their former master, a certain Glenelg, to take them back into bondage.... I suspect ... that Glenelg's slaves were in love with their master, that they couldn't bear to be without him."
Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery
"What should I be getting married for? I find life good enough as it is. What do I need a wife for? ... And what's so good about a woman? - A woman is a worker. A woman is a man's servant. - But what would I be needing a worker for? - That's just it. You like to have others pulling your chestnuts out of the fire... Well, marry me off, if that's the case."
Ivan Turgenev, The Hunting Sketches
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