#virginity

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nature

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#eternity

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#feel #forever #judge #lot #love

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#ladies #little #mind #more #virginity

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human mind #imagined #mind #superstitions

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#been #find #haven #i #lost

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

#feminism #purity-myth #virginity #america

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#peeps #scott-westerfeld #virginity #love

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it. ↗

— James Jones

#emotions #indifference #sense-of-self #virginity #change