Quote by Alessandra Torre

“Being a virgin doesn't mean I’m innocent. There're degrees of compromise. I'm becoming an expert on skirting the inevitable, like swimming against a vortex.”

— Marata Eros

“Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”

— William Faulkner

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day,…

— Honore de Balzac

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our…

— John Green

“Innocence had nothing to do with the state of her virginity but with the state of her heart. A woman could screw a thousand…

— Sophie Oak

“Purity consists of more than remaining a virgin.”

— Joshua Harris

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly…

— Gertrude Stein

“A man is virgin if he says so.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into…

— Joseph Addison

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

“We women, when we’re searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic…

— Paulo Coelho