“I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.” WorldWellsMadeNamesSexPersonalityFameSymbols Author:Errol Flynn
“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.” OrderSexDifferencesGenerationsCreationPersonalityFemaleMalesConform Author:Margaret Mead
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."” PeoplePersonsMightStrongSexRoomsPaySituationBrokenPersonalitySorryGlassesOddExpensiveTelling The TruthMatureI'm SorryStrong PersonStrong Personality Author:Eddie Izzard
“The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.” CountrySexBornViewsHugePersonalityPeriodsShapesRaisedTime Periods Author:Lizzy Caplan
“But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.” PeopleGivingLooksPastUsedSexLeaderPiecesHairPersonalityModelsMeetingsExcitedCreditSymbolsSex SymbolMozilla Author:Mitchell Baker
“What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.” IfsUseWantedSexPersonalityWeaponsAllure Author:Quentin Crisp
“Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.” PeopleWayMayRealStoriesSexRealizingBehindsRecordsPersonalityHabitCivilizationTaxesBehaveCivilizedHistorianClueNuisanceReal Story Book:For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization Source: For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
“I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.” ThinkingWayWantHumansImportantReasonSexReligiousInterestingPersonalityActivitySurvivalRealmsFascinatingStationsReally InterestingHuman Activity Author:Brad Warner
“Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself, and in some other women in that industry, the way that sex work could eclipse the other parts of your personality, the way that I started to feel as if I wasn't qualified to do anything else. I had always known that I wanted to be a writer, and I stopped writing for a time while I was domming; the experience subsumed my other interests, and it scared me. Now, however, I have nothing but admiration for them.” IfsWayFeelsWritingWantedSexInterestKnownCareersSawsPersonalityIndustryBecomingScaredAdmirationQualifiedEclipseSex WorkBecoming One Author:Melissa Febos