Wendy Shalit quotes
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“By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.”
-- Wendy ShalitSource : Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
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“Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.”
-- Wendy ShalitSource : Wendy Shalit (2014). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
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“Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.”
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“If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?”
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“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.”
-- Wendy ShalitSource : Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
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“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”
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“I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I'm back to hitting bags and kicking ass.”
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“Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.”
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“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
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“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”
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