"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

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Source : "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

Kate Millett

#Women Quotes #Prudes Quotes

“No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.”
“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”
“A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.”
“I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”
“I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”
“Evil comes up softly like a flower.”
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”

Source : "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".

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