Edith

“Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.”
― Cookie Mueller, Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

“Why does everybody think I'm so wild? I'm not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.”
― Cookie Mueller, Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

“Sexual acts are not sacred actions. But the perception of the dishonour done to the body in treating them as the casual satisfaction of desire is certainly a mystical perception. I don't mean, in calling it a mystical perception, that it's out of the ordinary. It's as ordinary as the feeling for the respect due to a man's dead body: the knowledge that a dead body isn't something to be put out for the collectors of refuse to pick up. This, too, is mystical; though it's as common as humanity.”
― G.E.M. Anscombe, Contraception and chastity

“Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.”
― G.E.M. Anscombe, Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics