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"I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution."

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Bette Davis Actress
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead."

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Florence King Author
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"Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."

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Jimmy Dean Country Music Singer, Actor, Television Host
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"Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top."

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Esther Perel Psychotherapist, Author
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"Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body."

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