Sex Quotes - Page 38

• On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.

  David Hume

  Religious, Women, Soul

  David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• [When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Years, Feet, Presidential

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• I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Trials

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Diversity, Skins, Allies

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• Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
  Love never lets you go.

  Kingsley Amis

  Love, Pull Ups, Pants

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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Reality, Race

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

  Nicholson Baker

  Wings, Firsts, Metaphorical

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.25, Vintage

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• To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

  Brigid Brophy

  Two, Mind, Century

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”

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• While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.

  Crystal Eastman

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

  Crystal Eastman

  Children, Exercise, Men

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Gay, Our World, Discovery

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• When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.

  Angelina Grimke

  Responsibility, Men, Rights

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Men, Female

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• You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

  Lucy Stone

  Long, Peers, Trials

  "History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1882.

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• Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, Dating, May

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Dating, Fans, Female

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• I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.

  Bob Packwood

  Girl, Dating, Rejection

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• When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Views

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Dirty, Mean, Winning

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• I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Men, Vanity, Luxury

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

  Gail Collins

  Years, America, People

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• Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

  Blake Edwards

  Life, Happiness, People

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• If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Queens, United States, Birth Control

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• There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

  Barney Frank

  People, Maintaining, Difficulty

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