Quotes about sex
325 quotes from 189 people
The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 “The Problem That Has No Name”, opening linesThe feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963)A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016Newsweek, March 28, 1960- Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016The Observer, “Sayings of the Week”, August 28, 1957
Lady Gagaborn 1986Cosmopolitan (April 2010).
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Mohandas Gandhi, 17th October 1929. Quoted in Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Judith M. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1998 (pp. 228-9)To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (10 April 1930)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Interview with Joan Biskupic, “Ginsburg: Court needs another woman”, USA Today (May 2009)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Heaven, last lineActresses can only play women. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldbergborn 1955Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991), Introduction
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Second: Maiden No More, Chapter XIIIn context
