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 -
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
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 -
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 -
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison -
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 -
Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West -
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.
Fatema Mernissi -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H. L. Mencken -
I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.
Bruno Mars -
I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.
Janet Jackson -
Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
James Otis -
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy