Sexuality Quotes - Page 31

• Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

  Ryan Gosling

  Love Is, Parent, Tolerance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

  Jill Johnston

  Compromise, Cop, Fearful

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

  Starhawk

  Sex, Sacraments

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• Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.

  Susan McClary

  Sex, Order, Social

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• Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.

  John Henry Holland

  Inspiration, Discipline, Working Together

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Sex, Passion, Facts

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Secret, Lavender

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

  Judy Grahn

  Gay, Culture, Gay Culture

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

  Judy Grahn

  Dog, Wall, Mirrors

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

  Nicole Brossard

  Reality, Threatening

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

  Nicole Brossard

  Humanity, Poet

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

  Nicole Brossard

  Giving, Energy, Breaths

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Support, Environment, Nurture

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• I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

  Dionne Brand

  Romance, Firsts, First Time

  Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Different, Boards

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Mean, Issues, People

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Childhood, Important

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• I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Character, Kissing, Doors

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Bisexual, Parent, Today

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• Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Sex, Attitude, Patterns

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• Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

  Maisie Williams

  Girl, Sex, Should

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• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.

  T. R. Knight

  Gay, Interesting, Rumor

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