“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.” WorldHas BeensSoulLiteratureSexKnownConditionsPercentImportanceNineAnalysisNervesDevotedDeliciousNinetyNinety Nine Author:William John Locke
“The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.” WantChildrenTogetherSexReligiousMoralMovementGayOkayWingsMalesDevotedAdversariesRight WingHaving ChildrenUltras Author:Gloria Steinem
“In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.” MenLongHas BeensSaidStillsWarDesireSexWomenEmotionWeaponsFemaleMalesRevengeCrueltyDeceitSincereDevotedUnkindUnselfishKind WordsFuseByronThoughtlessnessVindictivenessUnkind Words Author:Cyril Connolly
“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.” PersonsSexChurchNumbersHistorySupportSixDifficultyInstitutionsFilledAncientProfessionRomePerpetualDevotedPrimitiveChastityRoman EmpireAncient Rome Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.” IfsMenShouldYearsBelieveHumansDoneLastsI BelieveSexMy OwnKnownClassStruggleRightsShould HaveHuman RightsThirtyDeniedContinentsDevotedBehalfThirty YearsLegal Rights Author:Susan B. Anthony
“I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.” PeopleTwoDifferentSelfHomeMotherSexCareersWifeSymbolsDevotedSex Symbol Author:Jayne Mansfield