Sex Quotes - Page 36

• Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Equal Pay, Should Have, Office

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• Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Cruelty

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• People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, People, Knows

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• Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Money, Interest

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• I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

  Sophia Loren

  Appeals, Sex Appeal, Susceptible

  "Fictional character: Epifania Parerga". "The Millionaires", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Luck

  "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", 1972.

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• Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Thinking, Lawyer

  Love and Death (motion picture) (1975)

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• Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

  Marcel Proust

  Kindness, Eye, Shining

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• Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

  George Burns

  Trying, Rope, Thrill

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• Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Mean, Political

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fate, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

  Robert Benchley

  Marriage, Divorce, Opposites

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I raise my pelvis to God
  so that it may know the truth of how
  flowers smash through the long winter.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Flower, Winter

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
  Or form a Piss Club where we all go
  in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

  Anne Sexton

  Games, Childhood, Catholic

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

  Nora Ephron

  Dirty, Boys, Men

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.150, Vintage

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• Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

  Cleveland Amory

  Humanity, Together, Way

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• After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

  Andy Warhol

  Alive, Next, Hardest

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

  Karl Kraus

  Jealousy, Men, Instinct

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

  Karl Kraus

  Excess, Surrender, Bacchus

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• And in the mean time my songs will travel,
  And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
  when they have got over the strangeness

  Ezra Pound

  Song, Mean, Young

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Sleep

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Responsibility, Men

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Home, Night

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• American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Race, Civilization

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