Ruth Rendell Quotes

I hate that people assume guys are the only ones to want sex. Girls want sex, too, and that shouldn't be a problem.

Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

How come everybody cheers when chicks flash their T&A, but when I pull out my D&Bs, i'm a registered sex offender.

A woman talks about having sex, and it's like, well, a guy got to have sex with you, so you're stupid. You've given something up.

Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?

Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.

It doesn't seem to occur to men that woman might be a worthwhile end in herself, or to see to it that she has a proper sexual release. And, to him, sex appeal is directly proportional to the immensity of a woman's tits.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.