[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences;… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If you are perfect great, and you fell from what tree? For some perfection is only seen. Now what is it in… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command… — Daniel Hack Tuke Copy Share Image
If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places… — Eminem Copy Share Image
It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured.… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Approaching the trail, he broke through the thicket a short distance ahead of the Empath. Causing the Empaths horse to startle as… — Alaina Stanford Copy Share Image
“Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Here was my mother, one of the Top Five pious women of the district, coming out with the unbelievable "God's great and… — Anna Burns Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause… — Henry Franklin Floyd Copy Share Image
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