Top 55 Second Sex Quotes
#1. When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space.
Kate Zambreno
#2. If I trace its breaking point I come across the eternity of the primitive impulse. The sea river is a cold impasse. Will I find secrets there? In my dream I am standing on a frozen lake, the second sex and I can hear female voices all around me.
Abigail George
#3. The male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.
Dan Brown
#4. When was the last time we had sex?" Logan's question was so blunt and unexpected it had Tate stumbling over his response for a second, and when he didn't answer, Logan continued, "You don't know, do you?" The
Ella Frank
#5. The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.
Simone De Beauvoir
#6. But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.
Simone De Beauvoir
#7. THE SEX & CASH THEORY - The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
Hugh MacLeod
#8. On our second date, she kissed me in a bar. I invited her home. We just caught the F train, which seemed like a good omen.
Alison Bechdel
#9. First, I like how the ice cream won out. Second, we're not having sex.
S. Walden
#10. Do they expect us to have sex right here on the kitchen table?"
Gunner, who was chewing a piece of toast, paused, considered the idea, and then shook his head. "Too messy. We'd get sugar everywhere. Plus, Cressy might walk in, and then I'd have to get her a second horse.
Katie MacAlister
#11. She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.
Alice Sebold
#12. My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best?
Nicki Elson
#13. Ren, her official second, was a Belter and, like all Belters, passionate about environmental control systems the way normal people were with sex or religion.
James S.A. Corey
#16. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
Ben Aaronovitch
#17. The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated - of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
Havelock Ellis
#18. : woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.
Simone De Beauvoir
#19. For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That model doesn't let you say "I like it at second base, maybe I'll stay here."
Peggy Orenstein
#20. I went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It's very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.
Norm MacDonald
#21. Candid, adj.
"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".
David Levithan
#22. My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best ...
Roger Zelazny
#23. I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Jacki Weaver
#24. So long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#25. As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
Alan King
#26. If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
Simone De Beauvoir
#27. I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it. (On the change in his body that Ali's intense physical training required)
Will Smith
#28. Remember
Love doesn't make the world go round
Sex makes it spin for a second or two
If you're lucky
So do chips, sausage rolls and girls in short skirts
Remember
Love
Lays its fingers on your heart
And holds it
Under water
Remember that
When the next girl smiles
Cath Crowley
#29. I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics.
Laura Kreitzer
#30. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.
Simone De Beauvoir
#31. Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
Cynthia Payne
#32. Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.
Phil Kerby
#33. Sex does a body good." ...
"I suggest a daily dose then.
Robin Bielman
#34. I had sex," I blurt out for the second time.
All eyes immediately fixate on Connor, who has been very quiet. His phone is gone and his hands are in his pockets. "Yes, it was with me," he answers the non-existent question.
Krista Ritchie
#35. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.
Sarah Mayberry
#37. Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.
Susan Sontag
#38. It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.
Sandhya Jane
#39. It took me a second to figure out how to read Wade's neat handwriting backward, but I eventually read, I had sex in a death barn, and all I got was this temporary tattoo.
Molly Harper
#40. One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#41. A man must have confidence in himself and his cock, to fuck a woman in the ass. If he does not have this control, his cock will direct the action; he will move too quickly, hurt the once-willing woman, and rarely, rightly, will he be given a second chance.
Toni Bentley
#42. Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.
Simone De Beauvoir
#43. The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#44. If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
Anita Loos
#45. Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust.
Chloe Thurlow
#46. Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. I would have taken Zeb, purely for entertainment value, but he had an actual date, with a real girl. That hadn't happened in a while, so I was a good friend and put my own needs second to the possibility of him actual sex with a real girl.
Molly Harper
#48. It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.
Simone De Beauvoir
#49. Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.
Dan Brown
#50. ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
Simone De Beauvoir
#51. Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source." - Warren Buffet
Archie Lee
#52. We'll make love often in the first year, less in the second, and after the third year, people perhaps think about sex only once every two weeks and transform that thought into action only once a month. Even worse, we'll barely talk.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Second, English has dispensed with the need to match nouns and verbs by gender, so you don't have to know what sex a table is before you can correctly talk about a table.
Robert M. Knight
#54. [Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
Anne Bronte
#55. Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.
Loretta Chase
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