"society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?"

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Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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“Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.”
“Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.”

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster
“And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.”
“A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.”
“The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality. That if they make the wrong decisions they are ruined for life. That someone more powerful, a man or even a more powerful woman, should be responsible for them. That's the value animating all of this. It's incredibly racialized as well.”
“Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.”
“There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
“I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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