“They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of.” DifferentChoicesTakenAdvantageSexualityEmpoweredTaken Advantage Author:Amber Heard
“There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.” IfsWayLooksChoicesCommonAvailableDenySexualityEmpowering Author:Amber Heard
“From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.” ThinkingViewsPowerfulFemaleEntertainmentSexualityPoint Of ViewEmpoweredStood UpReally Powerful Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.” SaidGuyBlackFeetFemaleAppreciateMalesTrackLegsSexualityFetishBootyBlack MalesGuy I Like Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think it's okay for them to explore their sexuality, as long as they own it and it's portrayed in the right way.” ThinkingWayShouldLongYoungOkaySexualityYoung WomenRight WayTaboo Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.” PeopleFeelsLeftSidesResultsEffectsCarSexualityComplainingSide EffectsAntidepressants Author:Bradford Cox
“Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.” PeoplePleasureFantasyChildhoodRootsOur ChildrenSexualityAffectedOur Thoughts Author:Ali Sina
“It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real sexuality all that time. There is historic evidence that entire populations can convert to homosexuality under certain conditions.” PeopleChildrenRealCertainConditionsMarriedEvidencePopulationSexualityPropagandaHomosexualityHistoricFull LifeHeterosexuality Author:Ali Sina
“Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.” PeopleFilmPsychologyChildhoodEffectsAdultsSexualityShockingTaboo Author:Tippi Hedren
“Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.” YearsTodayCertainActingComedySubjectsChangedParticularFemaleYears AgoFunctionImpactMalesSexualityPreservesEntertainingBodily Functions Author:Patrick Stewart
“I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film.” DoneFilmPicksSexualityNudity Author:Eva Mendes
“I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.” PeopleProblemFairsDepthConservativeSexualityNo ProblemRisque Author:Kelly Clarkson
“I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingBelievePersonsHas BeensSaidMomentsRaceHeardPeriodsOne DayBlameGenderSexualityTreatedAwfulDiscussionHeightTapeGarbageBreakdownUnhealthyMoments In TimeEditedUnhealthy Relationships Author:Mel Gibson
“I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.” HumansArtCharacterBodyAbleDesireExistenceArt IsConcernedEssenceSexualityNakedHuman LifeVulnerabilityHuman BodyHuman ExistenceIntriguedBasics Author:Thomas Koerfer
“I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.” PoliticalFoundRocksRevolutionSexualityActivismEngagedRock N RollPolitical Activism Author:Patti Smith
“I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?” HumansMayHas BeensUseGivenKnownCreativityDarknessDirectSexualityBeing HumanGreat HappinessConnectedness Author:Adrienne Rich
“The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.” IfsIdeasMomentsPleasureExampleSacredSexualityVisualsFinestSeducingDeductionsSure ThingTandem Author:Ravi Zacharias
“Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReasonChristianLife IsAnswersOur LivesClaimsFundamentalsLaysSexualityHostileChristian FaithSanctityAversionSanctity Of Life Author:Ravi Zacharias
“I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelingsRealityMightScaredSexualityFearlessAcknowledgeTerrifiedGet RealDeepest Feelings Author:Erica Jong
“It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.” IfsHumansEndsArtistCertainEasyWorryHuman NatureJudgingAreasSexualityBlockWorking ItInvestigatingEpithet Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.” TryingCultureDrawsConceptsMalesSexualityMasculinity Author:Charles M. Blow
“I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.” ThinkingWayKindHas BeensFormStructureMalesSexualityArcs Author:Sarah Ruhl
“The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.” IfsPersonsEndsWholeSexualityWhole Life Author:Erica Jong
“When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.” PeopleWantFeelsKindPlayKidsGirlInterestBoysMy FriendsResponseSexualityVulnerableSensitiveTerrifiedConfusingDollsMystiqueSissyBeing A Girl Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.” ShouldWho You AreSexualityDefine You Author:Jessie J
“I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.” ThinkingFeelsConsciousSexySexualityActressesEmbarrassedIntimidated Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.” AgeComfortSkinsSexualityFemininityAccumulationAge And Wisdom Author:Reese Witherspoon
“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.” YearsLittlesStillsCountryDoneChoicesGirlEnjoyMillionsStudyRightsVoteTwentiesSexualityOperationsBrutalDeprivedFreedom Of ChoiceBasic Rights Author:Dacia Maraini
“I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.” ThinkingDoeHas BeensImportantBlackCommunityRaceAttitudeStruggleIssuesPositionInstitutionsGenderSexualityLatterProgressiveTranslateInterconnectednessIntersectionalityBlack CommunityRacial EqualityGender Issues Author:Angela Davis
“By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.” GenerationsMediaPerspectiveGenderSexualityScreensDebateRepresentationLivelyYounger Generation Author:Laura Mulvey
“They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.” TwoRealBodyHandsSidesProgressImpossibleAirSubjectsProduceFemaleResponseSexualityResistanceDiscussionAbstractRepresentationCoinsEmergingTwo SidesJuliaProliferationFemale Body Author:Laura Mulvey
“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.” PeopleThinkingAmericaOpportunityUnderstandingBlackWhiteLevelsMistakeTalentSexualityEquationsBlack America Author:Viola Davis
“It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.” PeopleHateJudgmentI HateSexualityIntoleranceOutrageous Author:Ariana Grande
“Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.” PeopleHurtBrotherGayMy FriendsMy FavoritePassionateSexualityRageMy BrotherLunaticBullied Author:Ariana Grande
“How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?” PersonsJudgingConversationSexualityAssGet Up Author:Ariana Grande
“If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.” IfsLittlesAttitudeAlbumsSexualityStrategic Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Boys are rarely told that their virginity is a gift, or indeed that their sexuality is about “giving” something to another person – lightly or not. Boys “get laid”, “get lucky”, “get some”. They “take a girl’s virginity”, “take advantage”; if they’re thoughtful, they “take their time”. Boys are not taught to think of themselves or their virginity as something to be offered up, unwrapped and enjoyed.” IfsThinkingGivingPersonsGirlBoysTaughtLuckyAdvantageSexualityEnjoyedThoughtfulVirginityGetting Laid Author:Emily Maguire
“We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.” FeelsChoicesFiveSexualityVarietyPerformersVariety Of Music Author:Neil Tennant
“To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.” ShouldAbleCertainIssuesShould HaveIndividualityBoxesSexualityReleaseCelebrationIndividualismReinventing Yourself Author:Neil Tennant
“We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.” PeopleThinkingWorldIdeasRealWholeMovingHateIssuesGayShameSexualityWhole LifeLive ByGhettoOrientation Author:Neil Tennant
“My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.” IfsMindSelfSexMy OwnViewsAttentionToo MuchSatisfactionSexualityLovelyTensionDiminish Author:Paul Goodman
“I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.” ThinkingWayCharacterIdentityDegreesRootsSexualityFascinatingPsychologistPersonal ThingsArmchairs Author:Alan Ball
“Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.” MenRunningRaceFeetHotMalesForgottenAvailableSexualityPursuitLustSymbolsRanCompanionPrimeAncestorHuntersVividAutomobileMaidensDianaOutrunNymphsLove And LustSatyrs Book:The Ultimate Athlete Source: The Ultimate Athlete
“Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.” PeopleWritingHumansDifferentHuman BeingsInterestingAttitudeHugeSexualityConsistentConsistentlyTopics Author:Ben Barnes
“I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.” ThinkingStuffBoringSexualitySensualityInterviewsSo Boring Author:Scarlett Johansson
“The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.” WantTryingUseKidsGirlParentCommunityReligiousAttentionProtectSexualityTypicalTeenageTeenage GirlUtah Author:Julianne Hough
“I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.” ComfortableExcuseSexualityNo Excuses Author:Halle Berry
“Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.” KnowsEnoughUseKnow HowSmartSexualityEmpoweringBeing A Woman Author:Halle Berry
“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.” ThinkingWaySelfPlayWantedUsedArtistActorsKnowingTakenTalentComfortableSexualityCracksDisguiseDiminishThespiansTrotting Author:Halle Berry
“One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human condition, who we are, what we want, how we communicate to one another and this is also an exploration of a long-term relationship and what happens in it. There's human sexuality and all those kinds of things, so that helps - it all helps. You realise that I'm not a Playboy bunny.” WantHumansKindLongHelpingHappensTermConditionsCommunicateSexualityAdmireLong TermWho We AreExplorationRealisingAtomsHuman ConditionAgain And AgainBunniesPlayboyLong Term RelationshipPlayboy Bunnies Author:Julianne Moore