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“Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.”

Sex Fiction Contradiction Whim

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:

“Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.”

Sex Interest Fiction Landscape

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.”

Sex Fiction Roles Gone Taken Hero Female Competition Endure Males Theme Survivor Surviving

Author:Warren Farrell

“in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.”

Sex Fiction Written Adventure Lovers Presses Chosen Sixty Sheets Amorous Berserk

Author:Doris Day

“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.”

Two Sex Sin Fiction Too Much Worst Taste Sentiments Pornography Sentimentality Bad Taste

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.”

Made Stills Self Use Sex Felt Fiction Issues Involved Healthy Balls Magazines Reviews Declaring

Author:Barney Rosset

“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

Ifs Writing Littles Philosophy Care Reading Sex Fiction Novel Violence Clothes Notes Guilty Description Plot Advancement Cliffs Advancing Feasting Reading Fiction

Author:George R. R. Martin

“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.”

Thinking Life Is Sex Fiction Strange Relation Jane Austen Great Women

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.”

Sex Fiction Science Fiction Prestige

Author:China Mieville

“Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.”

Sex Fiction Bunch Dirty Satire Urban Pumps Friction Pulp

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.”

Stories Problem Sex Fiction Scene Treated Treatment Pauses

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".”

Thinking Knows Two Eye Action Sex Perfect Fiction Gone Cutting Unions Unity Now And Then Cigarette Lighting Sync

Author:Tilda Swinton

“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Body Reality Sex Felt Pay Attention Fiction Needed Demand Aspect Intention Gender Primaries Urgent Unreal Trans

Author:Judith Butler

“There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.”

Used Sex Bits Fiction Too Much Changed Used To Be Internals Categories Rude

Author:Janet Fitch