Virginia Woolf Quotes

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?

My main goal is to wait until I'm married to have sex. I would never, personally, be able to (have an abortion), because down the road it would always haunt me.

I don't believe in sex before marriage. I go out with boys, and we kiss, but that's it.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

Celibacy is exhausting.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.