Sinead O'Connor Quotes About Sexuality

Quotes about: Sexuality

• Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Desire, Sexuality, Objects Of Desire

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus". www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

• I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sex, Voice, Rocks

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

• There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Voice, Silence, World

  "INTERVIEW: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy, She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

• The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Facts, Way

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

• You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Choices, Age

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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