Sex Quotes - Page 22

• [On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Deprivation, Produce

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• It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Passion, Love Is, Expression

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• All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Pride, Class, Race

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.

  Barney Rosset

  Self, Issues, Healthy

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• Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Differences, Mind, May

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• Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Strong, Women, Destiny

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• For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mean, Men, Years

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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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• But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

  Nigel Dennis

  Money, Hands, Fundamentals

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• The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Color, Racism, Age

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• Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Crazy, People, Doe

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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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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• What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Successful, Thinking, Color

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• After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

  Nancy Friday

  Fall, Men, Self

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

  Nancy Friday

  Battle, Fields, Biology

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• If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

  Tina Fey

  Dad, Tape, Mines

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• men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, Thinking, Demand

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• Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

  Iris Johansen

  Simple, Complicated

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• Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dirty, Power, America

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• Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Mean, Data, Differences

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• Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it.

  Mina Loy

  Attitude, Superstitions, Illusion

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• The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

  Wendy Liebman

  Drinking, Safe, Way

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Stupid, Two, Taste

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Bible, Weekend, Miracle

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