“It must give you a lot pleasure, but I don't suppose this talent of yours makes you lots of money.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“My bond is with the people, and I will serve this great nation at the pleasure of myself. If there's one thing I've proven it's that you can count on me to pleasure myself.”— Justin Theroux, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., amazon.com
“To know in their viscera what women have been saying all along — that sometimes sex hurts, that often we do not come, and that always it is about power. Most importantly, though, men might learn the truth about female power and female sexuality and female pleasure. That it is all possible and it is…”— Tara Mulder, eidolon.pub
“It’s hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn’t want them to grow up in this screwed-up world. Who can blame Him?”— Margaret Atwood, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com
“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“The pleasure I'll get of watching you suffer is greater than any pain I'll ever feel.”— Andrew Chambliss, Stefan Salvatore, Paul Wesley, imdb.com
“Many people don’t like being touched if they are angry, but women seem to have more trouble than men with arousal if they are upset.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The difference in our bodies’ responses may make male-female connection especially tricky in such moments: this one simple difference in female reaction to different ways of being spoken to is one enormously significant reason that so many sexual approaches from men to women in long-term relationshi…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The woman literally often can’t take an intimate touch if her lover has recently been verbally disrespectful, or has failed verbally to soothe 'the Goddess in her' at some point beforehand, priming the release of oxytocin and vasopressin in her body and preparing the parasympathetic nervous system t…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Just as being valued and relaxed can heighten female sexual response, “bad stress” can dramatically interfere with all of women’s sexual processes.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“To enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” in the sense of knowing you are entering a trance state in the presence of someone who will protect you if necessary at the very least, and not endanger you or…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“One could say that she actually becomes, biochemically, a wild woman or a maenad. She becomes so disinhibited and impervious to pain that it is as if she is in a state of altered consciousness. Women in “high” orgasm go more deeply into this trance state than at any other time. Judgment is suspended…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The full melting response or “high orgasm” in women—which I would define (though our language around female sexual response is so inadequate) as that kind of orgasm that most intensely induces the most complete possible trance state and that most involves all the body systems, so that afterward the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The autonomic nervous system also responds to a woman’s sense of safety or danger. It sends the signals to the brain and then to the body that one is safe, so one can relax, eat, and digest; or relax and sleep; or relax and make love.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Gradually, I reexperienced the sense of deep emotional union, of postcoital creative euphoria, of joy with one’s self and with one’s lover, of confidence and volubility and the sense that all was well in some existential way, that I thought I had lost forever.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“That’s what explained vaginal versus clitoral orgasms? Neural wiring? Not culture, not upbringing, not patriarchy, not feminism, not Freud?”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Could it be then that women's famous slowness of arousal to men's, complex fantasy life, the lack of pleasure many experience in intercourse, is related to this cultural negation of sexual imagery that affirms the female point of view, the culture prohibition against seeing men's bodies as instrumen…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“People are defined by their people. They are defined by their pleasure. They are defined by their memories. That’s about it. All the rest is, well, stuff.”— Courtney E. Martin, amazon.com
“It's hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn't want them to grow up in this screwed-up world.”— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com