Honored Quote by Saint Augustine

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Jessica Valenti

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 the poetry, not the reality, of life.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

Virginity is not dignity its lack of opportunity

— Martin Kagecha

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Karl Kraus

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