Shere Hite Quotations

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

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

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.

People make institutions, not vice versa.

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

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

We have the right to our own bodies.

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.

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.