Chavela Vargas Quotes

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

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

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

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

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

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I had no plans to share that I was a virgin.

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.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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

I have a purity ring.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.