Sex Quotes - Page 23

• A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Country, Men, Race

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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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• Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

  Francoise Giroud

  Rights, Mediocre, Equal

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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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• If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.

  Marie de Gournay

  Jesus, Pride, Night

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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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• 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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• Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.

  Katha Pollitt

  Character, Buddhism, Men

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• Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

  John Roecker

  Friday, Keys, Blood

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

  Riane Eisler

  War

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• we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

  Rei Kawakubo

  Opposites, Appeals, Oneself

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• Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Land, Vipers, Lost

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Strong, Looks, Appearance

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

  Roxane Gay

  Hate, Men, People

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Mean, Thinking, Small Changes

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• A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong with being a feminist? I'm proud to be a feminist. It's been one of the most positive things in my life. It's one of the best traditions there is. It's admirable to be a feminist and to stand up for one's sex, to fight against inequality and injustice and to work for a better society.

  Mary Stott

  Attitude, Fighting, Feminist

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Attitude, Gay, Views

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

  Monique Wittig

  Causes, Would Be, Division

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Ambition, Biblical, Effort

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• Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Neutrality, Stories, Journalism

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• [Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

  Jessica Valenti

  Morality, Ideology, Superiors

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