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“It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.”

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Author:Amanda Seyfried

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.”

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Author:Rachel Bilson

“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.”

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Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.”

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Author:Donna Summer

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

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Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.”

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Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.”

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Author:Suzanne Vega

“Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.”

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Author:Sofia Vergara

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.”

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Book:At home: essays, 1982-1988

Source: At home: essays, 1982-1988

“I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.”

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Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

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Author:Mae West

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

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Book:The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

Source: The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”

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Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”

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Book:Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

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Author:Rumi

“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”

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Author:Dorothy Parker

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

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Author:Euripides

“Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.”

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Author:Wilhelm Reich

“To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.”

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Book:My Booky Wook

Source: My Booky Wook

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.”

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Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”

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Author:Alejandra Pizarnik

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

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Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.”

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Author:Louise Brown

“What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.”

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Book:Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

Source: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

“The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.”

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Book:Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

Source: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.”

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Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.”

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?”

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Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”

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Book:When God Was A Woman

Source: When God Was A Woman