Sexuality Quotes - Page 13

• Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

  Tippi Hedren

  People, Childhood, Psychology

  "The blonde queen of King Alfred (II)". Interview with Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 1999.

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• Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Soldier, Funny Wedding, Battle

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• Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

  Jessie J

  Should, Core

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Natural, Linked, Security

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

  Caroline Knapp

  Anorexia, Cartoon, Flesh

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Risk, Size

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• A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

  Diane Kruger

  Directors, Leading Ladies, Turns

  Interview With Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

  Adam Lambert

  Men, Years, Female

  "Adam Lambert Says Censorship of American Music Awards Song Would Be 'Discrimination'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

  Adam Lambert

  Proud, Embrace

  "Adam Lambert: Wild Idol". www.rollingstone.com. June 25, 2009.

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• I'm proud of my sexuality.

  Adam Lambert

  Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don’t think it’s something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

  Eva Longoria

  Thinking, Thirty, My Own

  "Eva Longoria Style Evolution: Crop Tops, Cutouts And Corsets, Oh My!" by Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Stars, Blonde, Different

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• I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Important

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• But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

  Thomas Mann

  Children, Blue, Secret Love

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann”, p.55, A&C Black

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• I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

  Marilyn Manson

  People

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 2001.

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• I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

  Shirley Manson

  Female, Ease, Individual

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• Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

  Ricky Martin

  Mirrors, Different, Born

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• Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Race, Gender

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• I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

  George Michael

  Cases, Persons, Findings

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• I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

  George Michael

  Love, People, Term

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• I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

  Ezra Miller

  Thinking, Play, Long

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• I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.

  Ezra Miller

  Needs, Want

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• Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

  Ezra Miller

  Teenager, Struggle, Healthy

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• Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

  Molly Parker

  Sex, Dynamics, Deals

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• Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Government, Culture

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