Erotic Quotes - Page 11

• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

  Laura Mulvey

  Strong, Impact, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

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• By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

  John Leo

  Change, Fashion, Typical

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Bipolar

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• I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Writing, Love Is, Men

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• Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Aspect

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• A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Differences, Space

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.171, Princeton University Press

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• PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Unique, Feminist, Environmental

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• I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Drawing, Done

  Egon Schiele (1960). “Egon Shiele: 1890-1918 : [Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibition]”

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• First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

  John M Barry

  Funny, Night, Dumb

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• The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

  John Barth

  Love, Reading, Mean

  "Chimera". Book by John Barth, 1972.

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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