Careless Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."

— Francois Ozon

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

— Voltaire

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

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for…

— Joyce Brothers

We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex.…

— Peggy Orenstein

There are people who've challenged me on that, but I think there still are. Not everybody looses their virginity when they're 12, there are…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

— Emma Thompson

Dear young girls losing their virginity; If your age is on the clock, youre too young for the cock.

— Anonymous

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

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

— Steve Carell

Virginity is like a soap bubble. One prick and it's all gone...

— Anonymous

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

— Don Williams