Quotes

"It's a fresh new day with no mistakes in it!"
Anne of Green Gables

"I'm proud to say that I am a virgin, and I don't hide the strength God has given me. You have to learn to respect yourself before you can start respecting other people."
A.C. Green, Basketball player with the world champion Los Angeles Lakers

"I'm saving sex for marriage because I want it to be something wonderfully special between my husband and myself. I don't want him to compare me to anyone else and I don't want to compare him. It's important to let others know about your decision to save sex for marriage-don't be embarrassed."
Amanda Penix - Miss Oklahoma USA 2000

"I encourage you to ponder this question, especially as you walk through a shopping mall: How many sectors of our society line their pockets on the commercializing of sex? Who is profiting from catapulting women into sexual expression and license that masquerade as freedom?"
Paula Rinehart - author of Sex and the Soul of a Woman

"I look forward to the day I can look my husband in the face and say, 'I loved you before I even knew you. I saved myself just for you.' "
Lakita Garth - Former Miss Black California 1995 and Runner-Up for Miss Black America

"...the sad irony is that women have clamored for total sexual freedom, the absence of sexual boundaries. So in a sense we are being burned by a fire we fanned, yet we seem surprised when we are burned."
Paula Rinehart

"I promised God, my father and my future husband that I would remain a virgin until I got married. I just always knew it was something I wanted to do."
Jessica Simpson - singer/actress

"Respect for modesty made women powerful."
Wendy Shalit - author of A Return to Modesty

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