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Quote by Dorothy Parker

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”

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Dorothy Parker, an American poet, playwright, and critic, was born on August 22, 1893, and died on June 7, 1967. Known for her wit, satire, and humor, she is a prominent figure in 20th-century American literature. more

“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.”

Giving Should Earth Marriage Benefits Response Average Contrary Satisfied Mutual Sensibility Prostitution Degrading Certificates Magnetism No Response

Author:Margaret Sanger

“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”

Men Firsts Believe Reason Hands Sex Witty Masturbation Funny Relationship Having Sex Funny Sex Sex And Love Upright Man

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.”

Men Children Persons Doe Hard School Three Youth Birth Men And Women Adults Following Burden Commit Command Distinction Cradle Maidens

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.”

Men Giving Values Left Heaven Sex Interesting Strange Delight Features Astonishing Intercourse Grotesque

Author:Mark Twain

“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.”

Actors Poet Entertainers

Author:Marlon Brando

“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

Knows Should May Self Body Girl Boys Skills Unique Sacred Sexuality Concentration Cycles Pace Phases Entrances Rigor Self Contained

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.”

Ifs Men Want Years Age Girl Asks Perfect Boys Four Twenties Ask Me Bothered Fidelity Fourteen Women Want Perfect Match

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”

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