“Her libido blazed to life. She smiled, impressed by the party-crashing shamelessness of sex, its willingness to show up anywhere—a funeral, a sermon, a final farewell. This was the way to go out, all right, thumbing your labia at the cosmos.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 285)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
James K. Morrow 166
(1947-) science fiction author 1947Related quotes

"pulled down shade"
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)

On The Late Show with David Letterman (1994)
"Prostitution and Male Supremacy" http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MichLawJourI.html (1993), Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 1(1):1–12. Reprinted in Life and Death (1997), p 139–51.
Often paraphrased as "Incest is boot camp for prostitution".

First published in The Southern Review (Spring 1939)
Source: The Company She Keeps (1942), Ch. 1 "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment", p. 5, first lines of novel.