It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.


Marge Piercy

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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.
MARGE PIERCY
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which giv...
AYN RAND
Sex is unclean, not because of the pleasure, but because of the suffering it brings
THEODORE ROESZAK
Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.
DAN CASTELLANETA
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national...
JESSICA VALENTI
The sex was fantastic. He is an amazing lover.
REBECCA LOOS
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD ...
JAMES GLEICK
The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be lik...
ISRA
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the ...
MARGE PIERCY
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
MARGE PIERCY
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third
MARGE PIERCY
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it
MARGE PIERCY
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
MARGE PIERCY
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whin...
MARGE PIERCY
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love t...
MARGE PIERCY
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love th...
MARGE PIERCY
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as ...
MARGE PIERCY
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
MARGE PIERCY
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces/ More commonly it's modeled of baling wire a...
MARGE PIERCY
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats
MARGE PIERCY
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through ...
MARGE PIERCY
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of f...
MARGE PIERCY
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble o...
MARGE PIERCY
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
MARGE PIERCY
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war
MARGE PIERCY
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work ...
MARGE PIERCY
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
MARGE PIERCY
It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening
MARGE PIERCY
Shared laughter is erotic too
MARGE PIERCY
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the ...
MARGE PIERCY
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
MARGE PIERCY
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
MARGE PIERCY
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
MARGE PIERCY
they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.
MARGE PIERCY
Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.
MARGE PIERCY
Sex shouldn't be cherished, not unless and only it is a demonstration of love. other than that, it i...
PELLE
Sex is opportunity for pleasure,but hiding inside hardwork.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual ene...
PAULO COELHO
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives ple...
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
The pleasure we derive from doing favors in partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER
Sex mystery;While man is looking for pleasure in sex,his body cells are looking for the pleasure of ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
The power to defeat sexual temptations in life is by learning to transmute your sexual urges into ot...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The power to know whether your spouse is enjoying sex with you or not is by learning to discern the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The power to activate your inactive sex life is by learning to use the magical tool called pornograp...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD
The power to never get bored of sex is by learning to become adventurous in the art.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The power to defeat sexual temptation in life is by learning to distance yourself from the seducer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The power to become good in bed is by learning to defeat your sexual instinct.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, t...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
This is the way of it, wide world over,One is beloved, and one is the lover,One gives and the other ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is wort...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do...
JEAN CHRETIEN
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more ...
MARQUIS DE SADE
Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stra...
ROBERT BLAIR
Sex may be an expression of love. However, where sex exists, love may not always find a place. Sex m...
RAYKA KUMRU
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
Why not say that the meaning and purpose of the sexual powers is pleasure? Certainly sex is pleasura...
J. BUDZISZEWSKI
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older...
DAVID LEVITHAN
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get p...
WILLIAM GOLDING
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure...
THOMAS MANN
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC
It hurts, but then, what doesn't? Pain proves that we're alive, gives us the ability to appreciate p...
ANN AGUIRRE
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA
I'm a dog lover and sex addict. Those two things are unrelated.

DARK JAR TIN ZOO
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Laws of Sex;Sadistic sex;Some derive pleasure in torture & extreme pain during sex,infact some prefe...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For ...
DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER
Sex is a very important part of a relationship but its not the foundation. A relationship cant last ...
NERISSA IRVING
No sugar-coating -- the loss of Marge is disappointing.
GLENN SCHORR
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
The show is nothing but sex, sex, sex. We're really looking hard at it.
RANDY SHARP
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing i...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Sex is a pleasure related with sedative excitement while love is a cosmic healing.
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA)
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies...
EZRA STILES

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Shared laughter is erotic too
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Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the ...
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
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they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.
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Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.
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I'm going to call him and see what he says. He usually gives me a hard time.
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I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, a...
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I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then...
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Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life ...
MARGE KENNEDY
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It's amazing there were no leaks -- until this morning.
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When we encourage kids to drink, we're putting them at risk of dying.
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When they drink such a large amount in a short time they're putting their life in danger.
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There has been an increase in underage arrests. They don't want parents called because they don't kn...
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This was not a position to take lightly. He took a long time to make a decision.
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I am having a ball exploring a bunch of options.
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There are no egos over this project. We're only looking at the goal.
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Everyone likes the convenience of taking the classes at home in their pajamas.
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Right now, the schools are a tremendous anchor for our neighborhoods.
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