The Sexual Revolution Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Volkmar Sigusch

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Lily Tomlin

#13. 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

#14. Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Sophocles

#15. I watched what this man [Cruz] did to Dr. Ben Carson, who I respect, in Iowa, where he said that Ben Carson is out of the race - he has left Iowa and he's out of the race. And I thought it was disgraceful.

Donald Trump

#16. Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Al Franken

#17. If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. 62.

Anonymous

#18. Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

Rafael Sabatini

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

E. Nesbit

#22. I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

Tamra Davis

#23. Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.

Lisa Scottoline

#24. Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

Ruth Benedict

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

Naomi Wolf

#26. 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

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

Sabrina Childress

#28. 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

#29. I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.

Desiree Rogers

#30. The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Idries Shah

#31. There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

Charles Duhigg

#32. No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

Bruce LaBruce

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

Denis Leary

#34. Always act like a lady in front of closed doors. Never show emotion if it means risking your power.

Ellen Hopkins

#35. 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

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

Christine O'Donnell

#37. You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

Chris D'Lacey

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

Sally Kirkland