Character Quote by Jessica Valenti

Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing…

— Jessica Valenti

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

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually…

— John Donne

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually…

— John Donne

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Voltaire

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Virginity being blown down man will quicklier be blown up; marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made you lose your…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Karl Kraus

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

— Karl Kraus