Country Quote by Michael Avenatti

Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with…

— Mary McCarthy

I think our nation cannot stomach the notion of a woman in sexual terms whatsoever: that we are so puritanical that we cannot dismiss…

— Rod Lurie

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

— Sigmund Freud

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

— Kate Millett

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

— Rita Mae Brown

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to…

— Anonymous

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

— Joe Mantegna

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last…

— Bernice Sandler

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

— Florence King