Marge Piercy 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.
Karl Marx
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
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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.
Beatrice Wood
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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.
Mal Peet
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
Camille Paglia
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri
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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Natalie Cole
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
Katha Pollitt
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
Wendy Davis
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark
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Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West
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Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal
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The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
Jerry Goldsmith
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
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When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
Bruce Sutter
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It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
Gary Reilly
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy