quotes about Heterosexuality
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The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
-- Bruce LaBruce -
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
-- Edward Gorey -
You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.
-- Ellen Page -
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The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.
-- Hanne Blank -
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
-- John D. MacDonaldSource : John D. MacDonald (1987). “The Long Lavender Look”, Fawcett
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If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?
-- Judith Butler -
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
-- Marguerite Duras -
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There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality.
-- Marilyn FryeSource : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
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I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.
-- Marilyn FryeSource : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
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I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.
-- Marilyn FryeSource : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
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I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them:
-- Marilyn Frye -
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I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.
-- Michelene Wandor -
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.
-- Wendy Kaminer -
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
-- Zadie Smith -
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Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.
-- Shirley Geok-lin LimSource : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
