Sexuality Quotes - Page 23

• Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Grateful, Independent

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

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• Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, People

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• It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Should Have, Desire

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• If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Eternity, Supposed To Be

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• Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Mean, Fighting

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• Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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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

  People, Culture, Hyper

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

  Derek Jarman

  Sea, Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

  Rachel Cusk

  Crush, Girl, Catholic

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• I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

  Steven Shainberg

  Thinking, Might, Odd

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

  Steve Coogan

  Europe, Kind, British

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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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 Franta

  Race, People, Gender

  "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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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Sadism, Males

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  Tahir Shah

  Daughter, Doorways, Reputation

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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• Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

  Arthur Miller

  Devil, Witch, Hunts

  1998 On President Clinton's relationship withMonica Lewinsky. In the NewYork Times,15 Oct.

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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Taught Us, Blood, People

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• In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Art, Perfection

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.

  R. D. Laing

  Running, Men, Civilization

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• I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

  Mika

  "Why won't Mika give a straight answer?" by Richard Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2007.

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.

  Jennifer Beals

  Jobs, Sleep, Thinking

  Chatelaine Interview, www.chatelaine.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

  Troy Perry

  Jesus, Sins Not, Died

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.

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