Bell Hooks Quotes

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

Only death goes deeper than sex.

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I get them both very rare.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

Sex is good. Everybody does it and everybody should.

Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.

Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.