But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

-Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)
  The Ginger Man, ch.5.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  Of Irene  Adler. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 'Scandal in Bohemia'.

Now,Watson, the fair sex is your department.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Second Stain'.

Sex 'n'drugs 'n'rock 'n'roll.

-Dury, Ian
  Title of song.

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

-Dworkin, Andrea
Pornography: Men Possessing Women.

Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.

-Ewart, Gavin Buchanan
  'Office Friendships'.

Women, even though they are almost too visible as sex objects in this country, are invisible people.

-Friedan, Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi ne¤  e  Goldstein
  Speech at First National Conference for Repeal of Abortion Laws, Chicago.

His dominance is not that of one chosen as best fitted torule†but it issovereignty basedontheaccidentofsex.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
  Black Judgement,'Woman Poem'.

'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?

-Habington,William
  Castara,'Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women'.

Sex had never before asserted itself in her so strongly, for in former days she had perhaps been too impersonally human to be distinctively feminine.

-Hardy,Thomas
  Of Miss Newson. The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.15.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex.We got in too soon and we got out too soon.

-Harkin,Tom (Thomas)
  Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 29 Sep.

She gave him sex and he gave her class.

-Hepburn, Katharine
Explaining the success of the Fred  Astaire and Ginger Rogers partnership.  Attributed. of

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤  poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

-Hollinghurst, Alan
  The Swimming Pool Library, ch.1.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
  In Time, 30 Dec.

Sex is engaging in the first rounds but what sustains interest in the long run is power.

-Jiang Qing or  Chiang Ch'ing
c.1970  Quoted in Ross Merrill Mao (1993), ch.10.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.

-Lance, Bert
  Truth Is Stranger†, ch.2.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  'Pornography and Obscenity'.

Literature ismostlyabout having sex and not muchabout having children. Life is the other way round.

-Lodge, David John
  The British Museum is Falling Down, ch.4.