I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I never give orders. I sell my ideas to my associates if I can. I accept their judgment if they convince me, as they frequently do, that I am wrong. I prefer to appeal to the intelligence of a man rather than attempt to exercise authority over him.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.

I don’t want to be somebody that follows; I don’t want to be the ‘after’ person.

I preferred to live as master of men, not their servant.

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

Well, I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.

my nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.

I don’t want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

I believe in a political revolution, without the aid of the military. I would rather win a man’s mind than compel his obedience.