Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I'd need a good reason to drop my pants

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

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.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

It broke their virginity.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

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

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

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

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.