Quotes of Promiscuity - somelinesforyou

“ Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity? ”

- Hanif Kureishi

“ It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby ”

- Phyllis Schafly

“ One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well — but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity… ”

- Shirley Hazzard

“ The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. ”

- Jean Baudrillard
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