I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin
I could do a whole blog on Anais Nin based on the countless sayings I've collected of hers, but I'll just dedicate today, March 2, 2010 to her instead. Keep in mind she was born in 1903 and died in 1977, this frame of reference I think truly impresses what a revolutionary she was. Here are a few bits of wisdom she left with us:
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
"People living deeply have no fear of death"
On personal courage:
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Perhaps an alternate view?
"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
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