Hermaphrodites Quotes

• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Plato, Philosophy, Love Is

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• You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

  Jerry Springer

  Humorous, Fighting, Profound

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• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Half, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• If you are a hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gay, Impossible, Ifs

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• Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

  Charles Darwin

  Swimming, Science, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forever, Way To Live, Stubborn

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• There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Plato, Two, Forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.378, Macmillan

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• My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.

  Robertson Davies

  Skeletons, Interesting, People

  "I Remember Creatore". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1948.

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• I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Use, Lines

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• If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hurt, Art, Writing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.49, Penguin

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• Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Powerful, Fear, Groups

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Typewriters

  "Arianna's latest battle: taking on geek civilisation" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2005.

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• To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

  Charles Fourier

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

  Pat Conroy

  Queens, Moving, Black

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• Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Stupid, Rocks, Wwe

  "Line-o-rama: The Rock Says" By Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 2, 2009.

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• I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, College

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• Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

  Maya Angelou

  Differences, Growth, Library

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• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Venus

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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