Human spirit Quote by Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

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

— Jessica Valenti

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

— St. Jerome

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Saint Augustine

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

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

“He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore,…

— Angela Carter