"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know."

"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."

"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that."

"In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact."

"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."

"Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dona€?t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!"

"Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it."

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."

"But seduction isn鈥檛 making someone do what they don鈥檛 want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already."

"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery."