Quotes about sex
325 quotes from 189 people
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2- MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing, too.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menRape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, p. 120Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menThere is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
Madeleine Albright1937–2022Keynote speech at “Celebrating Inspiration” luncheon with the WNBA’s All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menAny woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & menAll this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966Vile Bodies (1930)
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938On Boxing (1987)- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5