Sex Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

  Elaine Morgan

  Two, Sexism, Objects

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.228, Souvenir Press

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• The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

  Kate Millett

  Agreement, Humanity, Bed

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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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• If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, Saying Yes, Able

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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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• If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

  Maeve Binchy

  Party, Writing, Groups

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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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• genius has no limit of sex or race.

  Olive Schreiner

  Race, Genius, Limits

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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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 love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Thinking, Hard

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• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Peaceful, Normal, News

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• In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Roles, Littles

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sports, Easter, Sunday

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

  Margery Allingham

  Ugly, Clear, Steers

  Flowers for the Judge ch. 4 (1936)

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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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• There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

  Dora Russell

  Religious, Teaching, Instinct

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• I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

  Dora Russell

  Fighting, Men, Inexperience

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Blow, Fire, Flames

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• I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Difficult

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• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  Fanny Burney

  Lines, May, Weakness

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.233

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