‘There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy’: an extract from Gillian Rose’s ‘Love’s Work’ | London Review Bookshop
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‘There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy’: an extract from Gillian Rose’s ‘Love’s Work’ | London Review Bookshop
love makes you weak, and the weaker of the two is oppressed, tortured, and finally killed by the other, who in his or her turn oppresses, tortures, and kills without having evil intentions, without even getting pleasure from it, with complete indifference; that’s what men, normally, call love.
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