quotations about virginity
It is the virgins, the daughters of our country, the rose buds, the birds of song, who make our homes so beautiful.
MRS. SIGOURNEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Toxotides
An isolated outbreak of virginity ... is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
Lucinda
Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.
JOHN WILMOT
"Many Wild and Unaccountable Things", The Debt to Pleasure
How, in the 21st century, can you possibly justify putting a value on someone's sexuality? The idea of virginity puts a heavy price on women. Given that today we as a society are fully aware of other sexualities beside heterosexuality, how do you shove lesbians in this small, confined box? Not only is this idea of virginity sexist, but it's heteronormative and incredibly outdated.
OLIVIA RIZZARDI
"What Are You Worth? Examining the Social Construct of Virginity", Arkansas State University Herald, April 24, 2017
A wisely and purely educated virgin is so poetic a flower of this dull world, that the sight of this glorious blossom hanging some years after the honeymoon, with yellow, faded leaves, in unwatered beds, must grieve any man who beholds it with a poet's eye.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
attributed, Day's Collacon