Virginity Quotes - Page 5

• When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

  Alice Sebold

  World, Safe, Assumption

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.247, Pan Macmillan

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• People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, Personality, Suffering

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Apocalypse

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• Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fighting, Army, Hollies

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.329, Hachette UK

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• Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

  Steve Aylett

  Mind, Sanity

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• The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Littles, Necks, Maidens

  Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “Beauty”, p.10, Spectra

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Meaningful, Cancer, Waiting Rooms

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.4, Grove Press

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• If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

  Catherine Breillat

  Want, Abstinence, Humans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Heart, Airplane

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• I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

  Joseph Scheidler

  People, Abstinence, Pleasure

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• There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Special, Toilets, Losing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Vegetables, Hell

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• Losing my virginity was a career move.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sexy, Moving, Careers

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• I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

  John Donne

  Honesty, Integrity, Yield

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• Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
  A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
  Nor snow, which falling from the sky
  Hovers in its virginity.

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Beauty, Fall, Swans

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• Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Men, Ideas

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3540, Delphi Classics

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• An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

  Henry Adams

  Venus, Dare, Command

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.377, Booklassic

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• In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

  Henry Adams

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

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• Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  People, One Day, May

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• A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

  Adam Ant

  Use, Firsts, Nightmare

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• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  James Mercer

  Girl, Football, School

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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