Toni Bentley Quotes

“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

— Toni Bentley

“A man must have confidence in himself and his cock, to fuck a woman in the ass. If he does not have this control, his cock will direct the action; he will move too quickly, hurt the once-willing woman, and rarely, rightly, will he be given a second chance.”

— Toni Bentley

“It's my hurt, my pain, and who are you to take it from me? I don't need rescuing, I don't need pity, I don't need opinions, I need fucking
and maybe a little spanking for indulging my anger.”

— Toni Bentley

“Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.”

— Toni Bentley

“Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys with insecurities who need big theories.”

— Toni Bentley

“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.”

— Toni Bentley

Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time.

— Toni Bentley

“The publisher has, helpfully, categorized this book under "self-improvement" in the time-honored American "self-help" tradition. These books, as Dr. Phil knows best, endlessly sell because they never work . but maybe the sequel will. There is, I surmise, a kind of insidious intimacy in these books, as on Freud's couch, between author and reader, an unspoken collusion in knowing much will be said but nothing will be done.”

— Toni Bentley

I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.

— Toni Bentley

To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.

— Toni Bentley

“A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.”

— Toni Bentley

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

— Toni Bentley

“We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.”

— Toni Bentley