Quotes 81 till 100 of 232.
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In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
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It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
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It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
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It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006) -
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
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Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.
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Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
The New York Times , 1 December 1975 -
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
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