"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the world."
Virginia Woolf
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
Moliere
"When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm better."
Mae West
"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology can't explain, -Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."
Oscar Wild
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
Sophia Loren
"When your fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it straight away."
Stewart Brand
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
Marcus Aurelius
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
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"Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion and purification."
Omar Shariff
"Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
Christian Dior
"You are ALL to me. You can always make me happy in circumstances apparently unpleasant and miserable... Indeed my dearest angel, the whole happiness of my life depends on you," wrote Charles James Fox to the courtesan Elizabeth Armistead on 7 May 1785. The story of Charles James Fox, aristocrat, Whig grantee, and one of the most brilliant and charismatic men of his day, and Elizabeth Armistead, is one of the great love stories of the eighteen century".- from a history book
"There is no point to number lovers of Ninon de L'Enclos, the famous French, as mainly there were most brilliant people of the French kingdom. By the words of men of the time in her 30-s she looked this way: Graceful, wonderfully built brunette, with face of a fine whiteness, with a subtile blush on her cheeks, big dark-blue eyes and an entrancing little mouth." Ninon kept her youth and beauty even in her late years. Young men were falling in love with her when she was in her 70-s. Even in her 80-s she was still dating with lovers. When, in her 70-s the King-Sun Louis XIV wanted to see the "phenomenon of his kingdom", he looked at her with interest and attention and then said: "It's so pity that she refused to adorn my court with her unfading brilliance", though there were many younger women in the court."- from an internet site
"The Venetian courtesan (Veronica Franco) has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta"- the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer... one woman's life as an act of self-creation and a complex responce to social forces and cultural conditions... her writing is a passionate support for defenseless women." - publisher comments on a book about V. Franco
"... they lived extraordinary, secret lives, surviving on their woman's wits in a man's world. In their own lifetimes the choices they made- for Independence, Freedom, and sexual autonomy- forced them onto the margins of society. At once emulated and shunned, they were disturbing figures. To some extend they remain so: at once ancient, and yet strikingly modern. Perhaps more than any other women in our history, their Lives were their Art." - from a history book
