Sexual Revolution Quotes

#1. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

Christine O'Donnell

#2. The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

Naomi Wolf

#3. All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.

David Burr Gerrard

#4. Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

Gioconda Belli

#5. The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

Edward Abbey

#6. The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

#7. If our foremothers could hear us, they would regret winning the sexual revolution

Rainbow Rowell

#8. The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Maggie Gallagher

#9. The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

Volkmar Sigusch

#10. A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Kate Millett

#11. Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

#12. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Volkmar Sigusch

#13. If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

Pat Buchanan

#14. My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Sally Kirkland

#15. For later generations of women - post Sexual Revolution - enjoying sex was to become simply a duty, the perfect orgasm yet another thing to add to the list of required accomplishments; and when enjoyment becomes a duty, we're back in the land of dreariness of spirit.

Alice Munro

#16. There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

Denis Leary

#17. No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

Bruce LaBruce

#18. I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce. We've had the sexual revolution. We've had, you know, the pill, and burning bras and rampant premarital sex and polymorphous perversity.

Ann Coulter

#19. A doctor who is interested in sex can advise patients. I became a better doctor by my late private sexual revolution. I ask the right questions in an easy non intrusive way, giving them option not to talk about or talk about it- their choice. They often start talking.

Lucie Novak

#20. Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

Rush Limbaugh

#21. I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

Lily Tomlin

#22. Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.

Sabrina Childress

#23. The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

Volkmar Sigusch

#24. This conspiracy needs a flow chart,

Carrie Vaughn

#25. She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't.

Jennifer Donnelly

#26. Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Bruce Springsteen

#27. Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.

Iris Murdoch

#28. I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.

Neel Mukherjee

#29. For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious
or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

Naomi Wolf

#30. The only way that I can survive such a fucked up reality is to act like everything on the outside no longer exists; and that includes feelings, especially feelings for a man." I

Jessica N. Watkins