Edith

“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

“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

“A man who decides to call himself a woman is not giving up his privilege. He is simply using it in a more insidious way.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“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