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“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”

Morality Sexuality Obsession Social Norms Inhibitions Puritanism Prudishness

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC

“If your relationship doesn't make prudishness and promiscuity seem pointless, it has not yet reached the right level of sensual authenticity.”

Love Marriage Authenticity Sensuality Sensual Relationship Advice Fidelity Promiscuity Prudishness Prude

Author:Lebo Grand

“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

World Literature Lost Harm Wander Dumb Innocence Bells Wiser Leper Prudishness

Author:Graham Greene

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

World Would Be Literature Lost Protection Harm Wander Dumb Innocence Bells Wiser Leper Prudishness

Author:Graham Greene

“The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.”

Giving Depends England Cooking Treated Sufficient Superstitions Bowls Flavor Salad Grotesque Garlic Prudishness

Author:Elizabeth David

“There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.”

Way Different America Different Ways Britain Prudishness

Author:Eve Ensler

“Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.”

Thinking Knows Reason Names Pleasure Failing Let Me Presses Tongue Editors Laziness Conventional Orthodoxy Incompetence Timidity Pact Offending Misplaced Prudishness

Author:Geneva Overholser

“Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.”

Love Should Art Matter Genius Discipline Demand Wit Expecting Faith And Love Prudishness

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Answers Modern Events Tvs Baby Violent Liberalism Abortion Civilized Destroying Unwanted Obscene Pretence Portraying Anti Abortion Against Abortion Prudishness

Author:Peter Hitchens

“Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.”

Beautiful Talking Dignity Purity Repression Serene Not Talking Prudishness

Book:How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women

Source: How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women

“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.”

Men Long Enough Evil Demand Eternal Innocence Sentimental Pretense Dense Lack Of Education Prudishness

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel