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title: "5 Intimacy Means Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lizzy-caplan/it-s-refreshing-honestly-to-be-able-to-have-more-intellectual/)

[Lizzy Caplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lizzy-caplan/)

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> [ “Don't you miss having a man? Don't you want to get married?" He \[Patrick Sonnier\] is simple and direct. I'm simple and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-prejean/don-t-you-miss-having-a-man-don-t-you-want-to-get-married-he-patrick/)

[Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-prejean/)

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> [Intimacy means "into me see"!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mandel/intimacy-means-into-me-see/)

[Robert Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mandel/)

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> [If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/if-honesty-is-the-key-to-intimacy-it-means-we-don-t-have-to-be/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/donald-miller-607_honesty_if-honesty-is-the-key-to-intimacy-it-mea_2588877.png)

> [I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-think-we-need-to-teach-pleasure-what-beautiful-touch-means-what/)

[Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/eve-ensler-1402_age_i-think-we-need-to-teach-pleasure-what-b_3203892.jpg)

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