Quotes by Updike, John

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature whic >>

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot >>

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of >>

Quotations about Sexuality

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; t >>

I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make >>

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spe >>

In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.

Updike, John