Joan Fontaine Quotes

Every man knows about a particular body part that often seems to have a mind of its own. And every woman knows how absurd men become when that is the body part they allow to influence their choices and decisions.

Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

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

Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.

Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.