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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."

"The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad."

"Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery."

"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."

"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."

"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."

"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
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