Heterosexuality Quotes

• Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

  Cheryl Clarke

  Philosophical, Mean, Heterosexuality Is

  "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.

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• I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Motivational, Strong, Gay

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• Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heterosexuality Is, Diversity, Normal

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• 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

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Serious

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

  Bruce LaBruce

  Heterosexuality Is, Opiates, Mass

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• I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Truth, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

  Ed Case

  Believe, School, Reality

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Heterosexuality Is, Individual, Homosexuality

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• Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

  Marguerite Duras

  Heterosexuality Is, Perfect, Desire

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Vices, Homosexuality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

  Russell Brand

  Gay, Heterosexuality Is, Robins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, School, Engagement

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• Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

  Adrienne Rich

  Rejection, Males, Way

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

  Michel Foucault

  Heterosexuality Is, Numbers, Interesting

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, November 23, 2000.

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• We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

  Jerry Falwell

  Sex, Alternatives, Benefits

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• 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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• War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

  Steven Morrissey

  War, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Heterosexuality Is, Perversion

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• Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Important, Gender

  "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.

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• A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

  Monique Wittig

  Men, Practice, Ideas

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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 Frye

  Thinking, Heterosexuality Is, Pressure

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.

  Gore Vidal

  Heterosexuality Is, Practice, People

  "American psyche". www.independent.co.uk. October 7, 2000.

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• Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Men, Dominance

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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• It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real sexuality all that time. There is historic evidence that entire populations can convert to homosexuality under certain conditions.

  Ali Sina

  Children, Real, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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