“American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King Copy Share Image
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. — Youssef Ziedan Copy Share Image
“Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.” — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I think our nation cannot stomach the notion of a woman in sexual terms whatsoever: that we are so puritanical that we… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
“Again, I know that story is suspect in the high precincts of American fiction, but only because it brings entertainment and pleasure,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
