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“The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.”

Men World May Two Moving Sex Term Quality Understood Men And Women Female Males Opposition Primitive Defining Representing Two Worlds

Author:Laura Riding

“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.”

Eye Sex Regard Practicals Ireland Primitive

Author:Susan Mitchell

“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.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.”

Men Sex Virtue One Thing Sexism Attributes Primitive Male Dominance

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.”

People Sex Parent Talking Scene Primitive Having Sex

Author:Gaspar Noe