Shame Quote by Alison Bechdel

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of…

— Alison Bechdel

“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I…

— Philip Levine

“Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

— Alison Bechdel

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence [...] I ask: who the hell…

— H.G. Wells

“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented us from…

— Miriam Toews

“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either…

— André Pieyre de Mandiargues

“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the…

— Audre Lorde

“The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I…

— Fiona Pitt-Kethley

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

“Writing about sex is not as personally revealing as one might think, because like anything else you write about, the words are not the…

— Doreen Baingana