Emily Dickinson on sex

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul⁠—and sings the tunes without the words⁠—and never stops at all.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn’t mean I’m naughty.

Britney Spearsborn 1981

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men
• Women

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful⁠—provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

Woody Allenborn 1935