Sex Quotes - Page 29

• The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

  Kate Millett

  Independent, Men, Feminist

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• I think men were destined to become homemakers. After all, who ever heard of "Ms. Clean" or the "Woman from Glad"?

  Randy Glasbergen

  Men, Thinking, Clean

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• I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.

  Barry Goldwater

  Home, Men, More Money

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• It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

  Grayson L. Kirk

  Girl, Would Be, Attractive

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• A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

  Alphonse Karr

  Book, Writing, Two

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• It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Differences, Stores

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• I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.

  Kin Hubbard

  Girl, Strong, Athletic

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• The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Intellectual

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• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Children, Men, Trying

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• The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

  Helen Rowland

  Vanity, Illusion, Feminine

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• My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond.

  Dick Powell

  Vacation, Ideas, Shade

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• A Total Woman caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex, or sports.

  Marabel Morgan

  Sports, Men, Special

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Athlete, Qualms About, People

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• sex is a commodity just like anything else.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Commodity

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Real, Drug, Junkie

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• In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.

  Kate Millett

  Men, Practice, Humanity

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• The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

  Kate Millett

  War, Enemy, Battle

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.46, Columbia University Press

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• [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

  Molly Haskell

  Gone, Passing, Sensuality

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• [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Military, Believe, Hero

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• People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  People, Wife, Maintenance

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• Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

  Freda Adler

  Order, Differences, Degrees

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• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Heart, Cat

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• Sleep is the new sex.

  Margaret Carlson

  Sleep

  Margaret Carlson (2003). “Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Nancy Friday

  Battle, Fields, Biology

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