“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
“Your beauty, Love, is not a mortal thing: there is no face among us that can match the image in the heart you rule and touch with fire.”— Michelangelo Buonarroti, amazon.com
“Reader must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, Humbert Humbert, amazon.com
“The image of her when she starts to smile dissolves within the mind and melts away, a miracle too rich and strange to hold.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“In her salutation dwelt my bliss, a bliss which often exceeded my capacity to contain it.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com