"Unlike
Webster's Ninth New Collection Dictionary, which says a virgin is "free
of impurity or stain; chaste; modest; unsilled," The Great Cosmic
Mother (Harper & Row Publishers, 1987)by Monica Soj?? and Barbara
Mor defines a virgin as a woman who is "one in-herself; not belonging to
a man." In the beginning, virginity had more to with sexual chasity.
The word was derived from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill.
And I like that. The Great Cosmic Mother as a woman is my ideal: a
woman with her tightly coiled 'fro and taut but not waifish body, in
the tropical isles, of course, giving and receiving pleasure physically,
handling her business and not being owned by a soul. Even if it means
I'm the last one left, I hope to remain a virgin all my life."
- Tara Roberts
Essence(June 1994)
Pg. 118
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