The Key

'Yes, I am cruel -since you take so much delight in that word- and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.'

- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"