Survival Sex Quotes

#1. The result is that we criminalize poverty, believing all the while that our tools are not only scientific but fair.

Cathy O'Neil

#2. Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.

Eva Burrows

#3. I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

Bernie Mac

#4. Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Vanna Bonta

#5. Our bodies are a commodity. Sex is our currency. Every day we fight for survival."
Jeri Estes Stilettos and Steel

Jeri Estes

#6. All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

Peter Singer

#7. She pushed him back to the desk, poking his chest.
I may punch you, bite you, crush your nuts between my thighs. It's going to be the best hate sex I've ever had. And your survival is not my first concern.

Kate Meader

#8. You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.

Aaron Sorkin

#9. I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

P.D. James

#10. The feel of her skin as she struggled beneath, the life inside, the death without. The breaching of life and death, of survival uncaged inside him: a dark beast with violence and sex in its soul.
In his soul.

Mav Skye

#11. Selective deafness was one of the many time-honored survival mechanisms of motherhood.

Nikki Sex

#12. If you can't pay the bill, I'll pay it for you."
"Thanks," I said, and turned my head to the side. "But in exchange for what?

Shaye Evans

#13. I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

Daniel Tammet

#14. The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of the penis.

Deborah Ainslie

#15. Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

#16. The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

Troye Sivan

#17. Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

Henry Fairlie

#18. He forgot everything, time and place; it was just the two of them together, needing each other, survivors of a black terror embracing because they had found each other.

Richard Matheson

#19. I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Taylor Swift

#20. Smoke is not chasing me and making my eyes sweat. My eyes are not burning. I am not crying. I am not standing behind my mother and she is not facing the wall and she is not saying, 'Smoke follows beauty.' Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty.

Amy Reed

#21. Are you Colt?" he muttered, coming to stand in front of me.
"Yeah."
"I want an hour."
"Two-fifty now, two-fifty later,

Shaye Evans

#22. People open bookstores because they want their souls back.
(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)

Elizabeth Tallent