Virginia E. Johnson quotes

“In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.”
-- Virginia E. Johnson

Source : "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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“Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.”
-- Virginia E. Johnson

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“We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.”
-- Virginia E. Johnson

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“We're born man, woman and sexual beings.”
-- Virginia E. Johnson

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“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

“With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.”

“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”

“And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

“I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws”

“Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.”

“I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!”

“There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.”

“Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.”