Valentine de Saint-Point > Quotes

“It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.”
― Valentine de Saint-Point

“We are at the beginning of a springtime; we are lacking in solar profusion, that is, a great deal of spilled blood.”
― Valentine de Saint-Point, Manifesto della donna futurista

“Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority of
men. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.”
― Valentine de Saint-Point

“Women are the Erinyes, Amazons, Semiramides, Joan of Arcs, Jeanne Hachettes; the Judiths and Charlotte Cordays, the Cleopatras and the Messalinas, the warriors who fight more ferociously than men, the lovers who incite, the destroyers who contribute to racial selection by smashing the fragile, acting through pride or desperation, “the desperation that gives the heart all its power.”
― Valentine de Saint-Point, Manifesto della donna futurista

“Women are the Erinyes, Amazons, Semiramides, Joan of Arcs, Jeanne Hachettes;
the Judiths and Charlotte Cordays, the Cleopatras and the Messalinas,9 the warriors
who !ght more ferociously than men, the lovers who incite, the destroyers who
contribute to racial selection by smashing the fragile, acting through pride or des-
peration, “the desperation that gives the heart all its power.”
― Valentine de Saint-Point, Manifesto della donna futurista