“I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.” ThinkingSexualitySecureSensualityGetting OldGetting Older Author:Charlize Theron
“When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short moments of sexuality, which makes it very confusing for the censors. If censors were merely human beings who watch a film ["Aquarius"] and come out with a conclusion about what they saw, then there wouldn't be a problem.” IfsHumansMomentsProblemFilmStrongHuman BeingsWatchesSawsImpactSexualityConclusionConfusingAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.” FilmAudiencePressesSexualityAquariusCannes Author:Sonia Braga
“When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ. Christ is the bridegroom. In these symbolic actions, rather than in physical actions, where a male reaches sexuality or participates in intimate exchanges, if one uses a different term - there's often a heterosexual figuring that takes place. The male poet invokes a beautiful female muse. The virginal nun consecrated invokes the male bridegroom, Christ.” IfsDifferentUseActionBeautifulTermChristPoetFemaleMalesSexualityIntimateMuseVocationSymbolicBridesNunInvokeBridegroom Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.” CivilizationSexualityMakeupHeelsHigh Heels Author:Hugh Hefner
“When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.” KnowsKindLittlesWaitingStreetsWalkingSexualityOver YouConfusingPrey Author:Gwen Stefani
“I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."” FeelsHas BeensFemaleMalesScarySexualityPatriarchyFemale Sexuality Author:Ruth Wilson
“Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.” RealityStrangeSexualityLifestyleSensualMaterialistic Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."” BelieveHumansI BelieveSexAspectInstinctWorkersSexualityRidiculousEmpoweringGoddessPublicationUnstablePrevailingEditorials Author:Jim Goad
“I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.” ThinkingKnowsImportantBodyFailingGayConceptsSexualityTraditionalComplexityWho We AreFeminineCategoriesMasculine Author:Judith Butler
“You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.” FeelsMayPersonsTermActivityComplexesOneselfSexualityEvolveConfusedFeminineCaptureUsualMasculineTransformingDynamicsPassivity Author:Judith Butler
“The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.” TryingLittlesStatesUnitedCitiesUnited StatesStrangeRaisesUniversityCornersGenderActiveSexualityAppropriateScholarScholarship Author:Judith Butler
“I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.” KnowsIdeasInfluenceGenderSexualitySettingPsychologicalSettingsInvitedPsychologistPsychiatric Author:Judith Butler
“Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.” DreamStandardsCatSexualityDictionary Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.” PeopleThinkingIssuesGayConversationGenderSexualityGender Issues Author:Pam Grier
“When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.” PeopleHomeBodyMightDecidedSexualityYour BodyHatsTonightCoatsBack Home Author:Sonia Braga
“I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.” FirstsTermSexuality Author:George Michael
“On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.” PeopleWayDoeHas BeensImportantChristianLevelsResultsChristianityTypeDiscoverySexualityErasAnalysisHomosexualityRepressionMethodology Author:Michel Foucault
“People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.” PeopleWayYearsSexFineSexualityOne Way Author:George Michael
“God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."” MenTwoTeachingBabyMoralityMen And WomenSexualityBiology Author:Jen Kirkman
“[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.” MenLongStatesReasonFightingExampleColorReadyTrumpAngrySexualitySettingSettingsLazyRacistNo ReasonAcceptableMore MoneyInferiorsIrrationalWorkplaceCompetitorsWorldviewIncompetentSexistGet Ahead Author:Jennifer Pozner
“I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.” ShouldBelieveI BelieveExpressionSexuality Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.” IdentitySexuality Author:Tilda Swinton
“Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.” PeopleWayCoursesConversationSexuality Author:Tilda Swinton
“That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.” IfsKnowsBelieveImportantEndsDoneWholeBodyYoungCertainFoundHappenedIdentityFindingsAbsolutesCornersSexualityFinding YourselfLinksFascinatedAdamAround The Corner Author:Tilda Swinton
“It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.” PeopleBelievePersonsDifferentLawRightsIndiaIndividualitySexualityIndianLgbtVery Sad Author:Kabir Bedi
“When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.” SelfAmericaFailingSexualitySensualityDepartmentRepresentation Author:Shailene Woodley
“The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.” PeopleSpeakChurchTeachingGenderSexualityInequalityAshamedHomosexualityOrganisationAversionGender Inequality Author:Hozier
“We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.” LooksPersonsFactsAspectGenderSexualityOrientationTroublesomeSaturated Author:Lance B. Wickman
“For me, I don't do nip or bush. I won't do it. And that's because I talk to numerous young women in high school and I talk to them about owning who they are, and not giving up their sexuality because they have to.” GivingSchoolYoungGiving UpHigh SchoolSexualityYoung WomenNot Giving Up Author:Ashley Graham
“I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow people to make their own choices.” PeopleThinkingShouldMatterChoicesSexualityIntimacyReproduction Author:Tim Kaine
“I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.” NeedsBookSexualityConfusedFiftyShadeGreyFifty ShadesShades Of Grey Author:Lena Dunham
“I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.” ThinkingMadeJobsBlowSexualityReally GreatIntercourseBlow Job Author:Judy Blume
“Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.” WantFeelsPersonsAgeYoungCoursesClearProudApproachShameSexualityLoudYoung AgeIntegrated Author:Lena Dunham
“When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensAbleMotivationCultureSexFocusFemaleSexualityAnticipateSubordinatesBoostAssertivenessDopamineFemale SexualityMotivation And Drive Author:Naomi Wolf
“Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.” PleasureImpossibleBehaviorResearchSexualityHomosexualFunding Author:Naomi Wolf
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.” PeopleEndsFeelingsAgeRaceProgressMediaParticularBattleHappeningsInstitutionsCurrentsGenderSexualityDiscriminationDisabilityCollapseFrighteningUrgencyGender EqualitySense Of UrgencyStalling Author:Catherine Mayer
“I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.” ThinkingWayFeelsMatterSpiritualitySexualityPersonal Matter Author:Mohsin Hamid
“The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.” ThinkingSelfAbleComfortableFemaleSexualitySufficientSelf SufficientPhysical BeautyFemale Sexuality Author:Laura Marling
“Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.” PeopleKindCountryMatterWould BeDesireFightingBeliefMovementImportancePassionateSexualityAidsFoolishSignificantEroticEpidemicsAids Epidemic Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.” PayClaimsPainfulSexualityNervousLgbt Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.” PeopleDreamRealityPoliticalMovementProfoundSexualityOppressedComponentsPolitical PowerPolitical Movements Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsKindStillsDifferentDesireGuyCertainImaginationPayPracticeTerribleSexualityDifferent ThingsImmoralPromiscuous Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I am as sex-positive as the next perverted bisexual liberal, but I don't think sex-positivity should be solely the domain of any political party or that it means policing others' sexuality or judging it. There's no "better than" or "less than," if that makes sense.” IfsThinkingShouldMeanPoliticalNextSexPartyJudgingPositivitySexualityMake SensePolitical PartiesDomainBisexual Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.” PeopleThinkingProblemSexIssuesStudentsRelationStupiditySexualityBoundariesProfessorsMessyImposingSuggestingGrad Author:Laura Kipnis
“There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!” HumansBodyUglySexuality Author:David LaChapelle
“So many people are close-minded. They aren't open with themselves. I want to be that punch in the face that says, "Who cares!" The more people try to hide sexuality, the more it's going to be brought up.” PeopleWantTryingCareFacesSexualityWho CaresClose Minded Author:Jeffree Star
“In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.” PeopleIfsWantKindChildrenStillsSchoolCertainNamesTreatsProfoundRewardsLibraryAppreciationSexualitySensualitySixty Author:Maya Angelou
“Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.” RealityPainCulturePleasureFantasyFemaleAbuseSexualityComplexity Author:Deborah Kampmeier