“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.” PeopleThinkingMenMatterSeemsSexCan DoResultsEffortGreaterOughtConnectedInventionDamagePuzzles Author:Maxwell Perkins
“There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.” FeelsMayPersonsSexDifficultMagicPrideBirthAmbitionAdvantageDignityFortuneConnectedVanityVainCharmCelestialOffspring Author:Madame de Stael
“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.” PeopleKnowsWayArtFeelingsLiteratureGivenSexLonelinessConnectedIsolationRelief Author:Adrienne Rich
“When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.” MenStatesGovernmentWishSexGainsLaborIndependenceInstitutionsTrainConnectedProfessionEmploymentSecureDepartmentHonorableCompensation Author:Catharine Beecher
“People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.” PeopleSexConnectedInfidelity Author:Eva Longoria
“I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.” PeopleFilmSexFeltJokesNegativeHollywoodScaredConnectedFilmmaker Author:John Cameron Mitchell