"we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame."

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Source : Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC

Maude Royden

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“The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.”
“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two â€” Time and Patience.”
“I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.”
“Information is only useful when it can be understood”
“Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. Â They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.”
“Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.”
“My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risquÃ© for me."”

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