Character Quote by John Donne

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

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

— Saint Augustine

Virginity is not the dignity; its just a lack of opportunity.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Voltaire

“The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you’re wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance…

— Honore de Balzac

Virginity is not dignity its lack of opportunity

— Martin Kagecha

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

“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

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

— Karl Kraus

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler