Abstinence Quote by Catherine Breillat

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got…

— William Shakespeare

Virginity is not the dignity; its just a lack of opportunity.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Jessica Valenti

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

— Voltaire

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

— St. Jerome

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

— Karl Kraus

“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after…

— Jessica Valenti

Virginity is not dignity its lack of opportunity

— Martin Kagecha

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

— Karl Kraus

“Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole…

— Robyn Schneider

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from…

— Voltaire

“The whole idea of losing one's virginity is kind of ridiculous. To lose something implies carelessness. A mistake that you can fix simply by…

— Sarah Ockler