Virgin Quotes

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...

{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

“This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning.

“Are you a virgin?”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”
― Junot Diaz

“he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right.”
― Jess C Scott, Master & Servant

“It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

“At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“I'm a virgin, Ariel," I whispered conspiratorially. "Sealed up like a Swiss bank account.”
― Shelly Crane, Consume

“I dream the scent
of my mother's lipstick
has come back to haunt me—
like an oil pastel
marking
my dreary, dramatic heart.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“But as far as your virginity is concerned... Now that you are married and divorced, it's normal that you're no longer a virgin! You can make love with whomever you want, without anyone knowing! You know! There's no meter down here!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries

“Like a blushing virgin unaware of what this older man had in mind, I fluttered my lashes, a pout on my lips.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“The child in the middle of the room was glaring at him, for child she was, no matter what her advanced years. She was a virgin, untouched, unkissed, innocent and angry, and he was prepared to enjoy himself immensely. "So tell me, little one. What really brought you here?”
― Anne Stuart, Ruthless

“I didn't mind the fact I was a virgin still, but I knew some girls saw it as a badge of shame. It was ridiculous how society acted. You were a prude if you hadn't had sex and a slut if you had. There needed to be a middle ground where people who actually liked sex could spend their time doing it as much as they wanted.”
― Laura Greenwood, The Platypus and Her Wolves

“A girl or woman that drinks or smokes is very unlikely to still be a virgin.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“My virginity weighed like a millstone around my neck. It had been of such enormous importance to me for so long that my habit was to defend it at all costs. I had been defending it for five years and I was sick of it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Let me tell you something about unicorns—they're faeries and faeries aren't to be trusted.”
― Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

“When it was his turn to talk, he told stories. He told me ones I knew, old stories, and he told me old-sounding ones I had never heard.”
― Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

“Some girls, and even some women, would still be virgins, if they were not poor. Or if they did not want to live a lifestyle they do not afford.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Back in the early 2000s you were called a freak, loser, virgin, nerd or weirdo by women for using the internet. Now look at them.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“I thought all you princes wanted was demure virgins you could pluck for the first time."

"Ah, there you have got us all wrong! That seems to be what one is expected to want, especially in a bride. Virginity is overrated. Give me a woman who knows what she wants any day over a simpering and most likely scared innocent.”
― Helen Rygh-Pedersen, The Briar Crown

“Is it possible my lover is not the man I thought him to be? Does he see me at all?
Am I projecting my own inner man onto him? Am I forcing him to take responsibility for my undeveloped talents? Am I treating my body as my mother treated hers? Am I thinking like my father? Where am I blindly reacting as they did? Where am I still reacting childishly? Is my anger coming from my gut or from my head? Is it feminine anger or animus anger?
(Feminine anger cleanses; animus anger leaves me tense.)
Guided by the response of the unconscious as revealed in dreams, we differentiate grain from grain, question after question, until one day we find our own authentic voice. ~Marion Woodman,The Pregnant Virgin, Page”
― Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation

“Art arises when the heart becomes overcast with feelings and the hands hold the brush, trembling, unsure of what will flow, yet what flows is a beauty, so virgin and pure.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“You look like a virgin mother with immaculate conception except you are not a virgin, the conception was not immaculate and your son is not jesus”
― Vineet Goel

“They say a virgin is the most precious thing in the world... I never understood it before now.”
― E.L Beth, His Desperation

“Did you save yourself for a fairytale prince from one of your stupid books?” His voice is strained and raspy now, like he is holding himself back, only hanging on by a threat. “Or were you just too good for anybody else to spread your legs?” he taunts.”
― C. Hallman, The Hate Vow

“No matter how much sex you have, or how many babies you conceive and bring into this world, your awareness of ‘being sensual’ should ever remain virgin.”
― Lebo Grand