Choices Quote by Gloria Steinem

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

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

— 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

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

— Kenneth Rexroth

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

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

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

— Catharine MacKinnon

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

“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel…

— Audre Lorde

Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it…

— Steven Pinker