Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes
Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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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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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
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Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.
