"The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees."

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Jeanette Winterson

#Mother Quotes #Sex Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.”
“Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.”
“I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.”
“Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.”
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”

Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
“I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.”
“If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!”

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