Owning your sexuality and your sexual drive is one of the most empowering things anyone can do. And over the past few years, we’ve seen and heard women speak up — volume cranked all the way up to 11 — about their sexual needs, desires and fantasies without any hesitation.
More and more, we’re learning to love our bodies and taking matters into our own hands, literally. We’re asking the important questions: Where exactly is my G-spot and what do I have to do to find it? We’re talking openly about anal sex toys and discussing squirting in detail. The things that used to make our grandmothers cringe and clutch their pearls are finally topics open to discussion — and we couldn’t be happier.
Sex should never be a taboo topic, and being proud of your sexuality is downright beautiful and more than welcome. It’s time to get empowered — and these 16 quotes should help you get there.
A version of this article was originally published in August 2015.
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Be Whatever You Want to Be
Image Credit: Buda Bendes/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. Beyoncé dropped this gem of a quote in an interview with Out magazine in 2014.
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Body Love
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Journalist and author Naomi Wolf wrote this in her book The Beauty Myth.
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Carnal & Beautiful
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Fiona Zedde wrote this in her book Bliss.
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Her Enigma
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Peter Brooks is an author and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale.
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It’s in the Curves
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Roman Payne wrote this in his novel The Love of Europa.
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Live Passionately
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Judith Plaskow wrote this in her 1991 book Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective.
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Wanting Pleasure
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Nenia Campbell wrote this in her novel Bound to Accept.
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No Chaperone Needed
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Alice Bag is the author of Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story.
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Emancipated Woman
Image Credit: Karen Cox/SheKnowsGetty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Simone de Beauvoir wrote this in the 2011 book The Second Sex.
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Nothing Wrong with Sex
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Alessandra Torre wrote this in the 2013 novel Sex Love Repeat.
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The Secret to an Orgasm
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Feminist icon Betty Friedan was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women and author of 1963's The Feminine Mystique.
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What Is Purity?
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Kaija Sabbah is an artist and model living in rural Northern California.
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The Joy of Sexuality
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Fiona Thrust wrote this in her novel Naked and Sexual.
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Simmering Energy
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Sera Beak wrote this in her 2006 novel The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark.
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The Mind Speaks
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. New York Times Bestseller Mary Roach wrote this in Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
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Uncharted Territory
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Author Caroline Knapp wrote this in her 2011 bestseller Appetites.
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Wondrously Made
Image Credit: Getty Images. Design: Karen Cox/SheKnows. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote this in her 2011 book All But Alice.
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