| Quotes
on Love, Truth, Beauty, Sexuality & Feminism
"How delicate her feet who shuns the ground,
Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men." (Homer)
"Desire is the essence of a man." (Spinoza)
"Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic
spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the
magic of caresses, the spell is broken." (Simone de Beauvoir)
"The Slow Arrow of Beauty. The noblest kind
of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does
not make stormy and intoxicating impressions (such a kind easily arouses
disgust) but that which slowly filters into our minds." (Friedrich
Nietzsche)
"The true man wants two things: danger and play.
For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to
comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something
of angelic light." (William Wordsworth)
"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie." (William Shakespeare)
"The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting
the fact that there are millions of facets to it, a million forms
of eroticism, situations, atmospheres and variations. We have, first
of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain
open to its surprises, varied expressions, and (to add my personal
formula for the full enjoyment of it) fuse it with individual love
and passion for a particular human being, mingle it with dreams, fantasies,
and emotion for it to attain its highest potency." (Anais Nin)
"Analyse any human emotion, no matter how far
it may be removed from the sphere of sex, and you are sure to discover
somewhere the primal impulse, to which life owes its perpetuation.
... The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive
mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. ... Mans
most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice,
his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment
to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between
our instincts and our culture." (Sigmund Freud)
"The great question that has never been answered
and which I have not yet been able to answer, ...is 'What does a woman
want?" (Sigmund Freud)
"It is not enough to conquer; one must know
how to seduce." (Voltaire)
"Sex is dirty only when it's done right."
(Woody Allen)
"Only the united beat of sex and heart together
can create ecstasy." (Anais Nin)
"Let there be pleasure and ecstasy on earth
and let it begin with me." (Annie Sprinkle)
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
(Timothy Leary)
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it,
and there will be an end to blind obedience." (Mary Wollstonecraft)
"The art of life lies in taking pleasures as
they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are
they always moral." (Aristippus, Ancient Greek Philosopher)
"We have to free half of the human race, the
women, so that they can help to free the other half." (Emmeline
Pankhurst, Women Suffragist)
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight
in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
(Anais Nin)
"... Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
"I do not wish women to have power over men;
but over themselves." (Mary Shelley)
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy
is the same." (Oscar Wilde)
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's
face is her work of fiction." (Oscar Wilde)
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned
that there was in me an invincible summer." (Albert Camus)
"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman."
(Simone de Beauvoir, 1949)
"Age does not protect you from love. But love,
to some extent, protects you from age." (Anais Nin)
"But, soft! What light through yonder window
breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and
kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That
thou her maid art far more fair than she… See how she leans her cheek
upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might
touch that cheek!" (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
"The only difference between men and women is
one of physical function - one begets, the other bears children. Apart
from that, they both can and should perform the same functions and
should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in
this way society will get the best value from both." (Plato,
Republic)
"We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct
our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures.
However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what
we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with
the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We
will be happier if we face reality on its own terms." (Jennifer
Roback Morse)
"Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for
creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must
also create a gay life." (Michel Foucault)
"Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to
comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves
with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!"
(Albert Einstein)
"Truth and love are the only things worth living
for and the only things worth dying for." (Rebecca Ann Talcott)
"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds
outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to
get out." (Michel de Montaigne)
"Neither sex, without some fertilization of
the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest
reaches of human endeavour." (Jean Paul Sartre)
"The world is given to me only once, not one
existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier
between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent
experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
(Erwin Schrodinger)
"All human beings are sexual creatures and there
are few, if any, for whom the whole area of sexuality and relationships
is not of interest and concern." (Peter Vardy) |
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