Subservience Quotes

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
― Alexander Pope

“The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens.”
― Deborah Levy, Real Estate

“If women are the earliest sources of emotional caring and physical nurture for both female and male children, it would seem logical, from a feminist perspective at least, to pose the following questions: whether the search for love and tenderness in both sexes does not originally lead toward women; why in fact women would ever redirect that search; why species-survival, the means of impregnation, and emotional/erotic relationships should ever have become so rigidly identified with each other; and why such violent strictures should be found necessary to enforce women's total emotional, erotic loyalty and subservience to men.”
― Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

“It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“You can’t keep a good woman down who sucks at being subservient.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.”

That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.”
― erin mccarthy, Live for Me

“The Uncle Tom, the grinning nigger, the house nigger who is to blame for her debased place in this world. Pompey gave them a blueprint for colored folk. How they acted. How they pleased white folks. How eager they would be for a piece of the dream that they would do anything for massa.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“Let one colored in and you're integrated. Let two in, you got a race war as they try to kiss up to whitey.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.”
― La Tisha Honor, Teen Roach

“A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one’s life is a good thing to do.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“If you have voluntarily saddled yourself with a dog that you’ll have to walk twice a day, come rain wind or snow, that is as good as having put a leash around your own neck.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog