Shere Hite Quotes

• We have the right to our own bodies.

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  Body

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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.

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  Sex, Believe, Men

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

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• You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

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  Decree, Sexually, Women's Rights

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press

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• I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together.

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  Sex, Kissing, Together

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• Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

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  Family, Children, Two

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• Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

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  Family, Lasting Love, Lasting

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• People make institutions, not vice versa.

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  People, Vices, Institutions

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

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• Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.

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  Mean, Choices, Littles

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• Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

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  Family, Made, Institutions

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• ... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

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  Father, Democracy, Catching Up

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.406, Seven Stories Press

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• Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

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  Children, Two, Parent

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

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