Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

I think women hide behind their hair.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn't even need to be a gay label.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived through a series of (almost certainly unconsummated) relationships with young men.

Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.