#virgin

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#colony #disappear #earlier #reason #some

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts. ↗

— Robert Hurt

#good things #lot #start #started #strangers

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-virgin-suicides #death

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#mary-magdalen #virgin-mary #life

Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled. She snapped the box closed. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run. She didn’t faint. There might have been a little crying. But mostly… she danced. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#british #dance #garrick #happy #love

In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again. ↗

— Michelle Reid

#stupid-male #virgin-wife #virginity #love

And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fiction #modern-fiction #virginia-woolf #art

I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#eternity

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#feel #forever #judge #lot #love

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#carolinas #exports #great #population #quite