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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100
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