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“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.”

People Thinking Men Matter Seems Sex Can Do Results Effort Greater Ought Connected Invention Damage Puzzles

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.”

Humans Character Strong Sex Loses Human Beings Development Ought Higher Males Individuality Individualism Traits Comrade

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.”

World Wells Life Is Sex Ought Obsession Feds Incidents

Book:The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Mean Long Whole Sex Records Events Judging Ought Devil Relation Busy Finished Sexism Judged Right Way Inaction Arabian Small Changes Memorandum

Author:Gertrude Bell

“I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.”

People Feels I Can Helping House Sex Church Fire Ought Boxes Valuable Setting Settings Convince Destroying

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.”

Humans Sex Sides Perfect Ought Privilege Improvement Chiefs Disability Replaced Admitting Hindrance Subjection Subordination

Book:JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.”

Ifs Should School Together Names Sex Marriage Mankind Ought Models Deserve Educated Public School Fellowship Intercourse Cement Vindication

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.”

Able Sex Ought Tests Opposites Gender Competence

Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes

Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes

“Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.”

Children Sex Watches Ought Hollywood

Book:How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People