Purity Myth Quotes

#1. In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

Jessica Valenti

#2. Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit

Jessica Valenti

#3. The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

Jamie Le Fay

#4. People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.

Nenia Campbell

#5. Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable ... but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

Johnny Cash

#6. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

Jessica Valenti

#7. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

John Knowles

#8. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.

Gordon Dahlquist

#11. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt

#12. A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

Eric Millegan

#13. He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn't know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow.

John Updike

#14. But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Julian Casablancas

#15. People who often falsely accuse, who repeatedly disbelieve the truthful, establish a relationship that makes fear signs ambiguous, likely whether their suspect is truthful or lying.

Paul Ekman

#16. People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.

Patricia Briggs