Wendy Shalit famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.
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Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
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If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
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The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.
-- Wendy Shalit
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I'm back to hitting bags and kicking ass.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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