Belle De Jour Quotes

#1. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

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#2. Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

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#3. In love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

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#4. Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

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#5. I decide to go out and spend all my money on underwear, then throw them about the room to
decide my fate like a satiny, lace-gusseted I Ching. Let the gods of Beau Bra decide.

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#6. Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.

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#7. Holding your stomach in when your clothes are off is not fuckable. Slapping your ample behind and inviting him to ride the wobble is.

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#8. Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

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#9. Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.

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#10. Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don't get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable ... and, therefore, the inherently desirable.

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#11. C is for Cash Only. I don't take cards. Where would I put the swipe machine?

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#12. First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do.

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#13. Thank goodness it only lasted a minute or so.
The inhalant, that is. The sex was rather longer

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#14. In a world of twelve-years-olds in sexy boots and nans in sparkly mini-dresses, the surest way to tell the prostitute walking into a hotel at Heathrow is to look for the lady in the designer suit.

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