Rachel Feltman > Quotes

“However you identify now or in the future, I hope this book has made clear that our concept of what is "normal" when it comes to sex and love and romance and family making and pegging your boyfriend is really arbitrary. You can take it or leave it. Normality just wasn't built to serve most of us.”
― Rachel Feltman, Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

“Even so, the fact remains that being not-straight wasn't invented yesterday. We may well be entering—or, in fact, already in—an era of particularly gorgeous levels of openness about sexuality in most countries and cultures. But there was never a time or place in history where everyone was simply and stably heterosexual. As a species, we have absolutely been there, and we have absolutely done that.”
― Rachel Feltman