Mae West Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.
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Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
