Quotes about sex
325 quotes from 189 people
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13: The Sunny SideI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (1981)The problem with gender, is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51- Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Slavoj Žižekborn 1949Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service (12 January 2010)
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Heaven, last line
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Mother Night, introduction to the 1966 edition
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 5
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Letter to N.A. Leikin (May 8, 1895)Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Mae West1893–1980Sextette (1978)If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brownborn 1944Sudden Death (1983)