Aura

“The rifts in this ancient wall continue to be patched with exhortations to women to avoid challenging the norm even if it means faking orgasm and sacrificing honesty in their intimate relationships with men. In the past we have been willing to pay this price; whether we should continue to do so is question for individuals; not historians, to decide.”
― Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction

“Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being