Sex Quotes - Page 24

• I think that sex should be done, but unlike justice, not seen to be done!

  Evelyn Laye

  Thinking, Justice, Done

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• All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Togas, Lovers, Form

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• we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

  Rei Kawakubo

  Opposites, Appeals, Oneself

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Passion, Facts, Intimate

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• Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Land, Vipers, Lost

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Strong, Looks, Appearance

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• I like to here my own sex praised but not the other.

  Marjorie Fleming

  My Own

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Thinking, Space, Decide Upon

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

  Roxane Gay

  Hate, Men, People

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  Gertrude Bell

  Mean, Thinking, Small Changes

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• No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Christian, Average

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• A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong with being a feminist? I'm proud to be a feminist. It's been one of the most positive things in my life. It's one of the best traditions there is. It's admirable to be a feminist and to stand up for one's sex, to fight against inequality and injustice and to work for a better society.

  Mary Stott

  Attitude, Fighting, Feminist

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Attitude, Gay, Views

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Men, Community

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• It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

  Monique Wittig

  Causes, Would Be, Division

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Ambition, Biblical, Effort

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• The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Issues, Religion, Politics

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• Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Neutrality, Stories, Journalism

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• [Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

  Jessica Valenti

  Morality, Ideology, Superiors

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• The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

  Hannah Woolley

  Wise, Husband, Sarcasm

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• Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Loss, Games, Joy

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• The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Real, Cells, Color

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• Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Mean, Inner Life, Primaries

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Issues, People, Feelings

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