quotes about Sexuality
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
-- Adam Lambert -
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
-- Adrian LyneSource : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
-- Al Goldstein -
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Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
-- Alexandra Kollontai -
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
-- Alfred KinseySource : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
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My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
-- Alice Bag -
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
-- Ana CastilloSource : Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books
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My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)
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[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.
-- Anita Bryant -
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I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
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Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.
-- Anna Freud -
My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.
-- Anna PaquinSource : "Anna Paquin Talks 'True Blood,' Her Bisexuality, and Her Country's Pride in 'Lord of the Rings'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 15, 2011.
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I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice
-- Anne Heche -
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Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
-- Arthur Miller -
I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
-- Barbet Schroeder -
Celibacy is exhausting.
-- Beatrice WoodSource : Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood (2001). “Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood”, Guild
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
-- Billie Jean King -
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Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.
-- Blanche Wiesen Cook -
Far from poisoning the mind, ***** shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
-- Camille Paglia -
[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
-- Camille Paglia -
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
-- Carla Gugino -
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Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...
-- Catharine MacKinnonSource : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.3, Harvard University Press
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I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
If you listen to yo momma You won't ever have no fun.
-- Chris Smither -
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
-- Christie Hefner -
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The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.
-- Christine Gregoire -
I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.
-- Colin Farrell -
If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone.
-- Connor FrantaSource : "'The Thing About the Internet Is We Take Everything Too Far': Youtube Star Connor Franta Opens Up". Interview with Tess Barker, www.mtv.com. May 5, 2015.
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Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
-- Connor FrantaSource : "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2014.
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There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
-- Courtney Love -
All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.
-- Darrel Ray -
In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.
-- David Bahati -
Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.
-- David Bowie -
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...
-- Derek Jarman -
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
-- Diane Kruger -
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
-- Dionne BrandSource : Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart
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I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.
-- Dree Hemingway -
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Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
-- Erykah Badu -
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Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
-- Eugen Rosenstock-HuessySource : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1988). “Life Lines: Quotations from the Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy”, p.12, Argo Books
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It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
-- Euripides -
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
-- Eva LongoriaSource : "Eva Longoria Style Evolution: Crop Tops, Cutouts And Corsets, Oh My!" by Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.
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I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.
-- Eva Mendes -
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I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.
-- Eva Mendes -
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
-- Ezra Miller -
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
-- Garret DillahuntSource : "Garret Dillahunt's Triple Play". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. April 24, 2012.
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Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.
-- Gary L. Thomas -
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
-- George Michael -
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
-- Germaine Greer -
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I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.
-- Goldie Hawn -
People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
-- Greg Louganis -
I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.
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If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
-- Jacques Lacan -
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I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.
-- Jan Morris -
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
-- Jasmine Guy -
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
-- Jerzy KosinskiSource : Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1998). “Admission accomplished: the Lesbian nation years, 1970-75”, Serpent's Tail
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Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
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Be warmed in your heart in the midst of your sexuality. Your response to your own sexuality is that you are warmly in it, not exploiting it, not moving away from it, that you are completely present in it, warmed.
-- John de Ruiter -
I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.
-- Josh Radnor -
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It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
-- Josh Schwartz -
The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
-- Joycelyn Elders -
[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
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Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.
-- Judy GrahnSource : Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
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I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.
-- Julia Child -
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
-- June Jordan -
I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.
-- K. D. Lang -
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
-- Karl Kraus -
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The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
-- Karl Kraus -
[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.
-- Kate Clinton -
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
-- Kate Millett -
You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.
-- Kirk Cameron -
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
-- Leon Kass -
You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.
-- Leonard A Cole -
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
-- Lionel Blue -
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Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
-- Lynn Margulis -
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
-- Mary MacLane -
It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body’s sexuality
-- Maurice Godelier -
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I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
-- Mia Kirshner -
I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.
-- Mika -
Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
-- Molly Parker -
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
-- Naomi Wolf -
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I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
-- Penny Wong -
Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
-- Pepper Schwartz -