Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Sex

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic

I’ve tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68) American Actress

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Unknown

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn’t desire the man offering himself to her. It’s the desire of a woman for a man who hasn’t yet come to her, whom she doesn’t yet know. She’s faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American Feminist Author, Lecturer

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don’t pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that “nice girls don’t.” He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue—but only in a certain section of society.
Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) English Popular Romantic Novelist

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework
Bill Cosby (b.1937) American Actor, Comedian, Activist, Producer, Author

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) English Economist, Clergyman

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo—or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
Gore Vidal (1925–48) American Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British Essayist, Physician

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Florynce Kennedy (1916–2000) American Lawyer, Civil Rights Leader, Feminist, Activist

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution… even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Writer

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
Sophia Loren (b.1934) Italian Actor

Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private— though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
Madonna (b.1958) American Pop Singer, Actress

Oh Doris Lessing, my dear—your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love—any more than that other Anna’s fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It’s all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms—like every family has color TV—and we can all get on with the real business of life.
Erica Jong (b.1942) American Novelist, Feminist

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Writer

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–94 ) American First Lady

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
George Burns (1896–1996) American Comedian

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy Warhol (1928–87) American Painter, Printmaker, Film Personality

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can’t get any of the things money won’t buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

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