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“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.”

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Author:William John Locke

“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”

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Author:Laura Antoniou

“I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.”

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Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“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.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.”

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Author:Dale Spender

“Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.”

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Book:Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day

Source: Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day

“The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

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Author:Jane Austen