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Virginity
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“... the only door into her bedroom led through the church.”
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“Virginity is a state of mind, when all's said and done.”
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“The beautiful, the beloved Miss Milner — she is no longer beautiful — no longer beloved — no longer — tremble while you read it! — no longer — virtuous.”
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“[Grandmother Lillian Walters] proclaimed herself a virgin, to which Shirley naturally responded, 'How could you be, Grandma? You have seven children.' But my grandmother had the last word. 'I know,' she said. 'But I never participated.'”
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“I said ten years ago that in ten years time it would be smart to be a virgin. Now everyone is back to virgins again.”
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“The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.”
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“I'll wager you that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.”
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“My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.”
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“I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.”
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“... she knew that in Georgia no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she had ceased to be one ...”
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“In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.”
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“[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity — the act of not having sex — with superior morality.”
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“When I was a little girl I was like, 'I'm gonna wait until I go to college to lose my virginity.' I had all these big dreams, and then the third grade just ended up being such a nutty year.”
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“Virginity is almost always code for moral superiority.”