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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan