William H. Masters quotes

“The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.”
-- William H. Masters

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“Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.”
-- William H. Masters

Source : "Two Sex Researchers on the Firing Line" by William H. Masters in LIFE, June 24, 1966.

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“The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.”
-- William H. Masters

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“Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.”
-- William H. Masters

Source : "Virginia Johnson obituary" by Suzie Hayman, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

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“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.”
-- William H. Masters

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“When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.”
-- William H. Masters

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“I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.”

“People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.”

“I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.”

“I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.”

“I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.”

“Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.”

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press

“It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled”

Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon

“Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.”