"I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Amber Hollibaugh

#Thinking Quotes #Practice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.”
“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.”

Source : Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC
“Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.”
“I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.”
“Nothing is more important than to war on war.”
“When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.”
“What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other menâ€¦ Some of the best conversations Iâ€™ve ever had with men have been over a cigar.”
“Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.”

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