Adulthood Quote by Jodi Picoult

“It wasn’t that she hated the idea of sex, just . . . she didn’t want it. Didn’t need it. But no one else…

— Elyse Springer

“I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a…

— John Lanchester

“Why had she set limits like no sex? I want sex .”

— Cherise Sinclair

“She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they have to corrupt it? Why…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“One of these people was a girl who exemplified everything I could ever come up with to want. We grew very close very quickly…

— Kyle Beachy

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“The truth is that when she didn’t nurture me, or meet my needs, it was because of a failing in her.  I was only…

— Danu Morrigan

“It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.”

— Corrie ten Boom

“I didn't want to be a virgin. That much I knew. I didn't want to feel like the immature prude who knew nothing about…

— Cora Carmack

“I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have…

— Erin Merryn

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats,…

— Carrie Fisher