Top 11 Quotes by Shere Hite

We have the right to our own bodies.

Body

All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.

Shere Hite

Sex, Believe, Men

Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.273, Seven Stories Press

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Shere Hite

Decree, Sexually, Women's Rights

Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press

I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together.

Shere Hite

Sex, Kissing, Together

Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

Shere Hite

Family, Children, Two

People make institutions, not vice versa.

Shere Hite

People, Vices, Institutions

Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Shere Hite

Family, Lasting Love, Lasting

Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.

Shere Hite

Mean, Choices, Littles