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> [We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/we-don-t-just-want-what-we-want-because-we-want-it-we-want-what-we/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

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## More by Hanne Blank

> [“Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/sylvester-graham-he-of-the-eponymous-health-food-cracker-claimed-that/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/real-women-are-fat-and-thin-and-neither-and-both-and-otherwise/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/we-don-t-just-want-what-we-want-because-we-want-it-we-want-what-we/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“(In actuality there are no such things as "male" or "female" hormones. Hormones have no sex of their own, and all types of sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/in-actuality-there-are-no-such-things-as-male-or-female-hormones/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [There is no wrong way to have a body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/there-is-no-wrong-way-to-have-a-body/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“For Hitschmann and Bergler, 'frigidity' had a single criterion: 'absence of the vaginal orgasm.' The standard was unqualified and absolute. A woman who did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/for-hitschmann-and-bergler-frigidity-had-a-single-criterion-absence/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/some-readers-were-aware-that-the-novels-they-loved-amounted-to-a/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/my-favorite-viagra-ad-a-spanish-language-print-ad-i-saw-some-years/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [ “\[Masters and Johnson found\] the so-called vaginal orgasm was actually not vaginal. When it happened at all, it was the result of friction between… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/masters-and-johnson-found-the-so-called-vaginal-orgasm-was-actually/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/the-models-we-have-and-the-standards-we-are-expected-to-maintain-come/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/you-have-the-right-to-not-have-to-constantly-manage-how-you-look-for/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/the-more-you-behave-like-you-have-the-right-to-exist-in-the-world/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/and-last-we-must-bear-in-mind-that-the-relationships-between/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I’m working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/personally-i-have-learned-to-welcome-the-sensation-of-boredom-when-i/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

> [“Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanne-blank/excuse-me-while-i-throw-this-down-i-m-old-and-cranky-and-tired-of/)

[Hanne Blank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanne-blank/)

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