Wendy Shalit Quotes

#1. After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

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#2. By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.

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#3. Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

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#4. The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

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#5. Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

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#6. If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

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#7. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

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