"Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck."
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"Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?"
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
"There is more to sex appeal than just measurements"
"The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask."
"Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation."
"If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you."
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
"Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy."
"Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it."
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex."
"I'm a born librarian with a sex drive."
"I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it"
"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it."
"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal."
"Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us."
"Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!"
"All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself."
"Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias."