Sexuality Quotes - Page 25

• My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

  Anna Paquin

  People, Prejudice, Bigs

  "Anna Paquin Talks 'True Blood,' Her Bisexuality, and Her Country's Pride in 'Lord of the Rings'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.

  Lorna Simpson

  Teenager, Reading, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• if I could tell my very-younger self something, I would tell him to let loose more often. I think it all roots in sexuality, but because of that, I became so worried about everything — worried about what people thought. I was afraid to be creative and charismatic and eccentric. Just to do things to do things, like dancing. I was afraid of looking too flamboyant or something. I would tell myself to stop being so stressed about what other people are thinking. Stop being so afraid that something may not come off the right way.

  Connor Franta

  Thinking, People, Dancing

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Confused, Trying, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids.

  Jessica Valenti

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way that is attractive and approachable to this age group. I can teach my daughter about not talking to strangers but I can't teach her about how to succeed in a sexist world or even how to exist as a body in a sexist world. I want to begin by asking girls what they want and why they want it? Interrogating that. If this is the sex life you want, what makes you think you want that? I imagine the only way to authentically get at sexuality is by asking those questions.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Daughter, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

  Claire Dederer

  Book, People, Culture

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

  Claire Dederer

  Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

  Francis Levy

  Men, Thinking, Imperfection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.

  Alice Bag

  Beautiful, Girl, Punk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.

  Brett Leonard

  Strong, Reality, Brain

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• Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Practice

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• When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Giving

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• You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Wind

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• Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Grateful, Independent

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

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• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Personality, Loved Ones

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• I can't relate to Mansfield or Monroe. The only one I can relate to is Bardot. First of all, there's a certain physical similarity between us. Second of all, she was very strong--she didn't have that affected sexuality.

  Pia Zadora

  Strong, Firsts, Certain

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• What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Tyranny, Humans

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mean, Headache, Homosexual

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• albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Eye, Hair, Vices

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• The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

  Adrienne Rich

  Limbs, Adolescence

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

  Rita Mae Brown

  White, Chapel, Has Beens

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 15 May.

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• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

  Steven Tyler

  Attitude, Rap, Rocks

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• We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

  Jay Michaelson

  Teaching, Gay, Jewish Tradition

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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