Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.

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

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

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

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

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.

We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.