"These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my
status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery."
— Philip Roth (The Dying Animal)

"Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

"Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices."
— Brenda Waggoner

"The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. "
— A.W. Tozer

"I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price."
— Klaus Kinski

"You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. "
— Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?)