"I've always been independent." "When I was young, other girls thought in terms of a home, family on which to build their lives to find security." "I've always been independent now I'm totally committed to my work to liberate things intelligently." "Women have always been sexual things objects playing for men to be looked at and admired when necessary then put away for safe keeping." "Look at history, all male-dominated societies." "Women have preened and polished themselves and even been proud of that." "They have become parodies of themselves." "Sometimes I write and talk all night and talk and write." "That made it up for me..." "I missed nothing when I enjoyed ten hours of sleep... which no power on earth could disturb." "I'm satisfied this is more lasting... than relationships with men." "In that situation I poured all my energies... into a fathomless pit of incoherent emotions." "If you had any idea... of the real cause of your agitation." "In my opinion, only the immature and insecure woman can realise her existence as a woman defined on a sexual level..." "When I consider the millions of women... who've been wasted, I feel nausea." "Maybe it's self-disgust... because perhaps I have this weakness." "The idea of bodies groping towards one another in the night... blindly unaware of the mindlessness of it all... makes me panic." "Liberation must be found." "Women must discipline themselves... and become objective about their lives." "Only men who appreciate this can come into contact with these women, on a beautiful new plane of understanding." "Please don't get excited." "I have no pretensions about myself." "I will not play the role that they demand." "I'm not old." "I've not allowed myself to give in to traditional slavery." "All these facts are proof enough that in comparison with other women... you have only very little sensual awareness." "You might be right about that." "Many people appreciate my efforts... and some men even understand." "I am not alone." "Many women think the way I do." "Loneliness is not my problem." "It is only found in sexual fantasies... which the sexually obsessed suffer." "Where people destroy one another... in their futile search for the elusive... the impossible moment." "Look at Lisiska..." "Her aimlessness, her lifestyle." "No..." "I don't understand this kind of destruction." "Why should I be party to this kind of thing." "In this respect, we are closer... to each other than you would dream." "To you, nature has granted... only an extremely limited sensuality... and the storms of life... have long since made a barren wilderness of me." "You can't fob me off with hocus pocus about emotions." "Don't get excited." "This could lead you to take violent measures." "Or for me, too..." "You are different from most men." "You are among the few I could trust." "I remember feeling like this as a child." "I can't stand this mental prevarication." "I'm facing a blank wall in my emotions." "Unassailable..." "Beyond which there is no recognisable horizon." "Part of me is glad... and does not mind confusion... and part of me is tired and frightened." "Women achieved emancipation long ago... through their sex." "Look at Lisiska... she gives sex not for cash... not for lifelong insurance... but for freedom and fun... casually and for her own pleasure." "I've not thought of Lisiska in this way." "Until we eliminate the desire between the sexes... liberation of women is just idle talk." "Women should desire men... but they don't." "Social and economic pressures have forced them into obedience." "I have never allowed myself to be obedient." "I have fought against this all my life." "When a man finds himself in want... he often has no choice but to... steal or starve." "But when a woman is in want... there is, beside this choice... the possibility of selling her favours." "This course is only open to her... because in bestowing her favours... a woman does not have to feel." "Women have exploited this advantage... since the world began." "Apart from anything else... man is by nature... infinitely superior to woman." "Because woman suffers in childbirth." "That's the contradiction I'm talking about." "To bear children is... anguish and tribulation... to beget them is regarded a pleasant pastime." "In this we are entirely in accord." "What nature has given women, man has exploited." "As long as they feel they have to become mothers... they will never be free." "If a woman chooses to become a mother... without a husband... she's labelled a whore!" "Yes, and as long as a woman fears motherhood... emancipation of women will remain idle talk." "Marriage is a cultural institution." "Cultural institutions exist to be outgrown." "Humanity will outgrow marriage... just as it outgrew slavery." "Lisiska is free." "Her ambition is not for one man... to whom she'd be enslaved... and bored." "She lives in a sensual world... where he and she are each other." "She doesn't wait for love... but offers it in the best way... generously, free..." "What do you mean?" "The story of paradise relates... that woman was given the power to seduce." "Woman seduces whomever she wants whenever she wants." "She does not wait for love." "Bourgeois society... meets this fearful menace... by bringing up its women... in an artificially induced intellectual darkness." "She must not know what it means to be a woman." "Political constitutions might come to grief over it." "No trick is too cruel for bourgeois society... in its own defence." "But bourgeois society - that is men!" "What kind of person are you?" "I am a moralist!" "What has my life been up to now?" "I've been motivated by my contempt for women." "But marriage has protected women's lives." "I'm interested in what you are going to say next." "You don't detest women?" "I am enjoying it." "I am enjoying you." "I feel confused... but it doesn't seem important." "What would the world hear of this stuff of morality... if man could control love... as he can politics?" "But this feeling..." "I've never known it before." "You are like an enlightenment." "What begins as enthusiasm... ends in possessiveness." "The one man you desire... doesn't exist." "Love all... then you will be sensual." "You have the power..." "Power... is the most hostile principle that exists for sensuality." "I am offering a man..." "Bread and butter... culture." "Someone without sensuality spreads terror." "My fantasy is becoming..." "I have to feel myself." "Can't you understand what's missing in you?" "Think of Lisiska... and where are you?" "Tell me..." "Keep still!" "Tell me... which is stronger:" "a man who has a dog... or a man who has no dog?" "The man who has the dog is stronger." "What about the man who has one dog... or a man who has two dogs?" "I think the man with one dog is stronger... because two dogs... could not help being jealous." "To say the least..." "But he'd then have to feed two dogs..." "Otherwise they'd run away..." "One dog can look after itself... and if need be... protect its master from robbery." "You choose this repellent simile... to explain the selfless, indissoluble union... between man and woman?" "You must have had terrible experiences." "The man who has a wife is economically stronger... than if he had none... but he's stronger... than if he had two more wives." "That is the foundation stone of marriage." "Woman would never have dreamed of... this ingenious invention." "I pity you." "I wonder if you had a mother or family life?" "Can you imagine yourself as a young man" "aged 16, who is beaten up... because he can't understand logarithms?" "And the person who beat me... was my father." "I beat him back." "I beat my father to death!" "He died after I beat him... for the first time." "But these are trifles." "You see the sort of people I live with." "Never have I heard the insults... in my childhood which my mother suffered... and which she daily challenged with abuse of her own." "The blows and kicks..." "I received as a child... which father... mother... and a dozen tutors competed with each other... to inflict on me, were nothing... compared to what I have experienced since then." "Try it with me." "You know little about lovemaking." "You are like a donkey... who wants to be a lapdog." "Your hands would hurt me." "This is not due to inexperience... it is due to your origins... in the inhibited love life... of bourgeois society." "It lacks a sense of delicacy... sensing the effects of your caresses." "It lacks tactfulness... and shame... an instinct all sensitive people are born with." "You dare to tell me that." "I dare to tell you that." "That I have no delicacy... and no sense of shame?" "I recognize a woman made for love..." "I see it in her frank, harmonious features." "In your features..." "I find nothing of innocence... nothing of happiness." "What am I living for?" "Why am I playing a part in this civilisation?" "I would have shot myself 50 years ago... if there had not been one bright star... shining above this howl of anguish... evoked by the pangs of birth and death." "What bright star?" "The pleasure of the senses... sensual pleasure..." "This is the ray of light... one pure unalloyed pleasure... which existence affords us." "Come..." "The one thing that has kept me in this world... has been selfless worship of unique joy... which makes up for all torment in our lives." "Come... and show me." "Why?" "How can a man understand you?" "I am not your property... and you are not my keeper!" "Have you ever been madly in love?" "No!" "What fear... what hatred... must lie in you!" "Kiss me..." "How ridiculous!" "How stupid!" "Translation:" "Schlurick/Whitehead Subtitling:" "C. 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