Sex Quotes - Page 22

• We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.

  Barney Rosset

  Self, Issues, Healthy

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• Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Strong, Women, Destiny

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• The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Color, Racism, Age

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• One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

  Joan Fontaine

  Men, Instinct, Puzzling

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• What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Successful, Thinking, Color

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• Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

  Nancy Friday

  Battle, Fields, Biology

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• If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

  Tina Fey

  Dad, Tape, Mines

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• men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, Thinking, Demand

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• Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

  Iris Johansen

  Simple, Complicated

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• Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it.

  Mina Loy

  Attitude, Superstitions, Illusion

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• The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

  Wendy Liebman

  Drinking, Safe, Way

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• I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Bible, Weekend, Miracle

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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Disappointment, America

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• Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mean, Men, Dating

  Alexander McCall Smith (1995). “Heavenly Date: And Other Stories”

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• [On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

  Sally Stanford

  Dubious, Entering, Advantage

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• I've had sex before with the belt on. That was back in the Ricco Rodriguez days. The night I won the belt I had a sexual experience with the belt on. But hey, I was 25 years old and it was the biggest thing that ever had happened to me in my life. The girl was like hey, are you going to take that thing off. And I said no, I'm not...I'm wearing it and if you have a problem with it, then I'm leaving. And I hate to say it, but if I do win the belt again, then this time it's never coming off. I'm going to wear it a lot more.

  Tim Sylvia

  Girl, Hate, Night

  "Tim Sylvia: '... if I do win the belt again, then this time it's never coming off'". www.mmamania.com. January 29, 2008.

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• I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Oil, Use

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• [Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

  Carol Tavris

  Children, People, Interesting

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• The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Taste, Bathroom

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

  Starhawk

  Sexuality, Sacraments

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Black, Crow, Twins

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• certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

  Marie de Gournay

  Taken, Males, Female

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• Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

  Marie de Gournay

  Wise, Women, Liberty

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• All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.

  Shere Hite

  Believe, Men, Feel Good

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press

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• money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don't believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make.

  Patricia King

  Money, Believe, Thinking

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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