Sex Quotes - Page 37

• And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

  Norman Mailer

  God, Time, Philosophy

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House

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• Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives,
  but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

  Milan Kundera

  Marriage, Thinking, Wife

  "Revenge of the pygmies" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2000.

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• The Reproductions of the living Ens
  From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence...
  Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells,
  And coral-insects build their radiate shells...
  Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,
  And fathers live transmitted in their sons;
  Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,
  The same their manners, and the same their minds.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Running, Father, Son

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• I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

  Henry Fairlie

  Lust, Abuse, Survival

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

  Joseph Joubert

  Women, Wind, Looks

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• I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

  Lucretia Mott

  Scripture, Claims, Application

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• ... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Color, Long

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4188, e-artnow

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• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Character, Men, Rights

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.241, UPNE

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• ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Past, Boys, Giving

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.

  Jane Rule

  Beautiful, Snow, Climate

  Jane Rule (1981). “Outlander”, Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press

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• I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

  Frederic Raphael

  Fidelity, Feels, If I Could

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• A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.

  Anita Loos

  Creativity, Effort, Creative

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Home, Men

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Opposites, Males

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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• I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Moral, Opinion

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.93

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• A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mean, Men, Good Man

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• We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.

  Ken Kesey

  Moon, Sky, Light

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• I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Nice, Women

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminism, President, Get Up

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• Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, May

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

  Camille Paglia

  Law, Abuse, Behavior

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Two

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• Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

  Georges Bataille

  Animal, Men, Desire

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Mean, Race, Age

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