That was a very racy remark for Gladys, whose idea of wild sex was Fred Astaire loosening his tie. —Susan Isaacs More about this quote Tags: sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I close your ear with kisses and seal your nostrils, and round your neck you'll wear — nay, let me work — a delicate chain of kisses. Like beads they go around and not one misses to touch its fellow on either side. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once. —Kathleen Winsor More about this quote Tags: people death birth sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: women men hats chase Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. —Amy Lowell More about this quote Tags: love mystery universe sex magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a volume of love poetry in the prison library. I've memorized it page by page and can recite it word for word. Now I need someone who will listen. —Jerome Washington More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy. —Hafiz More about this quote Tags: God enough water sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, totally dominated her daughter's upbringing and clearly had ambitions to be the power behind the throne once Victoria became queen. The princess slept in her mother's room and was never allowed to talk to anyone except in the presence of her German governess or the duchess. The very day that William IV died and Victoria ascended the throne, the Duchess of Kent came to Victoria after the state dignitaries had departed and inquired if there was anything she could do for her. "I wish to be left alone, " replied Victoria, and the same day she gave orders for her bed to be moved from the duchess's room. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell. —Daphne Merkin More about this quote Tags: love memory knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the strongest words for what I have to offer come out of me sounding like words I remember from my mother's mouth, then I either have to reassess the meaning of everything I have to say now, or re-examine the worth of her old words. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. —Amy Tan More about this quote Tags: love mind birth parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mother . . . is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: understanding sympathy mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email