Best Sexuality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“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.”

Thinking Interesting Powerful Position Appearance Sexuality Fertility

Author:Anna Holmes

“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.”

Humans Matter Human Beings Identity Youth Proud Equal Deserve Who You Are Gender Sexuality Treatment Be Proud Trans Respect Yourself Gender Identity Equal Treatment

Author:Andrej Pejic

“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.”

Self Animal Exciting Warm Sexuality Eggs Wet Compelled Corpses Provocative Fertile Forefathers Embryos Furry

Author:Lynn Margulis

“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.”

Should Important Values Products Concepts Sells Sexuality Who We Are Ads Normalcy Concept Of Love

Author:Jean Kilbourne

“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.”

People Form Intellectual Regard Intellect Sexuality Damage Insisting Damage Control

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“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.”

Source: Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy

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

Wells Done Healing Sexuality

Author:Gary L. Thomas

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

Energy Existence Objects Details Sexuality Objectives Vary

Author:Lynn Margulis

“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.”

Children Goal Differences Groups Share Color Shapes Our Children Size Sexuality Oppression Liberation Intolerance I Have Learned Hierarchy Membership

Author:Audre Lorde

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

People Writing Facts Law Opinion Atheism Dangerous Positive Atheism Sexuality Celebrate Songwriters Bad Laws

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“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.”

Men Way Ideas Facts Problem Fun Empathy Men And Women Sexuality My Way Cooperation Submission Dominance

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Might Able Culture Games Audience Player Diversity Gender Sexuality Designer Ethnicity

Author:Brenda Romero

“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.”

People Feels Should Firsts Issues Comfortable Music Is Sexuality Coming Out

Author:Elton John

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

Sexuality Never Quit

Author:Stephen Fry

“I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.”

Thinking Shows Sex My Own Written Performances Sexuality Imagery Having Sex

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.”

Love Perspective Involved Expectations Shame Sexuality Enormous Degrade

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.”

Men Feels Made Novel Written Bounds Sexuality Senses Deception Encounters Overwhelming Femininity Intoxication

Book:I'm Not Stiller

Source: I'm Not Stiller

“Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

Beautiful Language Sex Consciousness Subjects Climate Available Sexuality Snow Mortals Contemplation

Book:Outlander

Source: Outlander

“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Two Self Today America Faces Choices Girl Sex Enjoy Term Issues Danger Late Majors Concern Relation Males Sexuality Intimate Fearful Adolescence Defining Sexually

Author:Mary Pipher

“Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.”

Men Humans Desire Sex Animal Conflict Sexuality Triumph Domain Taboo Transgression

Book:Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo

Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo

“Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.”

Persons Said Done Sex Lines Diversity Skins Strategy Sexuality Oppression Allies

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.”

World Enough Form Desire Sex Sides Secret Creative Creation Possibility Gay Behavior Discovery Sexuality Our World Homosexuality Creative Life Fatality Forms Of Love Gay Life

Author:Michel Foucault

“Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.”

Heart Made Body Fun Willing Sexuality Flesh Promiscuity

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.”

Art Body Able Actors Acting Fire Stage Sexuality Actresses Steam

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.”

Different Ability Blood Lovers Kissing Degrees Draws Aspect Sexuality Curious Suspects Bites Sentimental Caress Chaste Disinterested Flogging

Author:Angela Carter

“The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.”

Children Real Certain Belief Parent Ability Effort Anxiety Ocean Filled Sexuality Teenager Tides Hearted Bucks Uncontrollable Mirages Real Ones

Author:Marie Winn

“A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.”

Persons Identity Gay Sexuality Labels Homosexuality Say Anything One Word

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.”

Realizing Psychology Food Eating Fundamentals Depth Sexuality Neglect Aggression Food And Eating

Author:James Hillman

“Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.”

Source: From Hegel to Existentialism

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.”

Should Believe Law I Believe Protect Difficulty Unions Definitions I Believe In Sexuality Traditional Recognition Homosexuality In-laws

Author:Stephen Harper

“But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.”

Should Believe Party Clear Position Should Have Don't Believe Sexuality Campaigns Abortion Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Feelings Body Sexuality Feel Good Masturbation Not Feeling Good

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part of me, and it comes out in the photograph. It's as if at that moment when I'm taking pictures, I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. If I see a moment that seems true to me, that seems honest, whether it's female or male, it's part of me as well.”

Ifs Men Wells Moments Seems Sex Honest Female Males Photograph Sexuality That Moment Not Afraid Taking Pictures

Author:Mario Sorrenti

“At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me.”

People Way Different Music Is Sexuality Teenage Understand Me

Author:Michael Stipe

“I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Kind Able Certain Gender Sexuality Operations Links Homosexuality Masculinity Femininity Trans Homophobia Forged Phobia Heterosexuality Gender And Sexuality

Author:Judith Butler

“I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.”

Bigs Nations Proud Sexuality Steering Monogamous Relationship

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.”

Sexuality Who I Am Phases I Am Who I Am

Author:Cara Delevingne

“If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.”

Ifs Sexuality Pornography

Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”

World Should War Use Today Christian Religion Given Women Effort Violence Holy Sexuality Mythology Approved Frantic Christian Right Holy War

Author:Riane Eisler

“Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.”

World May Mean Problem Social Careers Spring Males Sexuality Realms Efficiency Entrances Uniformity Disruptive Chauvinism

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.”

Hands Able Too Much Streets Identity Program Excited Stranger Sexuality I Realized Shakes Appearing

Author:Sally Miller Gearhart

“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

“I think that I'm allowing girls to be really free with their sexuality.”

Thinking Girl Sexuality Allowing

Author:Miley Cyrus

“The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.”

Ifs Problem Sex Rooms Kissing Majors Conscious Sexuality Focused Major Problems

Author:Augustus Napier

“This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.”

Littles Sexuality Who I Am Just One

Author:Connor Franta

“Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.”

People Ideas Desire Humanity Objects Complexes Males Sexuality Pornography

Author:Marielle Heller

“My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.”

People Thinking Has Beens I Can Sex Can Do Careers Fashion Sexuality

Author:Tom Ford

“We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.”

Views Sexuality Point Of View Empowered

Author:Amber Heard

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