Ellen Key Quotes

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I put sex in the Civil Rights Act.

The end goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist revolution, not just elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

It's high time subjects like sex, and everything that it includes, are normalised.

I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.

I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.