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"So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex."
"The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations."
"New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!"
"The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation."
"Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries."
"Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination."
"I think the animation helps divorce the violence from reality. The sex certainly doesn't look all that realistic. I think the fact that it's animated, we get some leeway because of that."
"I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message."
"She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans."
"Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude."
"I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel."
"All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex."
"I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera."
"When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed."
"People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings."
"This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me."
"Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me."
"There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex."
"I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?"
"When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke."
