Female-protagonist Quote by J.M. Coetzee

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Nothing is sexier than the naked mind --nothing more seductive than the inventive imagination.”

— Michael Grosso

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind…

— Aldous Huxley

“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“There was an art to taking someone outside of themselves. Some people went their whole lives enjoying pleasurable sex without brushing those lines, those…

— Kit Rocha

“I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative power deeply rooted from our…

— Lauryn Doll

“There was a strange but addictive magic to sex. It tied a thin string from his soul to mine with every joining, and I…

— Skye Warren

“She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.”

— Joseph Conrad

“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

“This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert