"Sex and art are the same thing."
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"The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused."
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"Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration."
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"Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power."
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"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman."
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"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."
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"Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any."
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"The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security."
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling."
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"Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman."
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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
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"I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain."
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"I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."
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"I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting."
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"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it"
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"On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion."
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"Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws."
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"Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness."
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"Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be."
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