| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47824 |
| QUOTATION: | The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. Dolmancé, in “Dialogue the Fifth,” Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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