Celebrate Quote by Esther Perel

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things…

— Diane Ackerman

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

— Anais Nin

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is…

— Octavio Paz

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they…

— Audre Lorde

“There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.”

— John Maxwell Taylor

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

— Lily King