Sexuality Quotes - Page 5

• There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Girl, Thinking, Speaks Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

  J. Lynn

  Enough, Masculinity, Dreamy

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• We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

  Billie Jean King

  Hate, Mean, Cutting

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• I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

  K. D. Lang

  Spiritual, Political, Homosexuality

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• For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

  Glenda Jackson

  Pride, Men, Independence

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• Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.

  Virgilia Peterson

  People, Ruts, Protection

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

  Susan Sarandon

  Sex, Mean, Saying Yes

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• What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Males, Hobbies, Female

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• A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

  Nicole Brossard

  Doe, World, Disappear

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

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• A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

  Nicole Brossard

  Radical

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

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• What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.

  Anna Holmes

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

  "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.

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• To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.

  Andrej Pejic

  Equal Treatment, Identity, Proud

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• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Self, Eggs

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Important, Normalcy, Who We Are

  "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

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• I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Damage Control, People, Intellectual

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  Arthur Evans

  Real, School, Character

  Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople

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• Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Healing, Done, Wells

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• Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

  Lynn Margulis

  Energy, Details, Existence

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Color, Differences

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• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

  Frank Zappa

  Writing, Law, People

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fun, Men, Ideas

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If we want to reach beyond the audience we have we've got to bring in more players, and to bring in more players we've got to bring in people who might be able to reach those players.

  Brenda Romero

  Player, Ethnicity, Games

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• Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

  Elton John

  Issues, People, Firsts

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

  Stephen Fry

  Never Quit

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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