Sexuality Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Art, Fire, Acting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Teenager, Real

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• A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

  Gus Van Sant

  Gay, Say Anything, Identity

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• Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

  James Hillman

  Food, Psychology, Fundamentals

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• Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Sex, Mean, Expression

  Robert C. Solomon (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Freedom, Distance, Class

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• I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

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• I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part of me, and it comes out in the photograph. It's as if at that moment when I'm taking pictures, I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. If I see a moment that seems true to me, that seems honest, whether it's female or male, it's part of me as well.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Sex, Men, Males

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me.

  Michael Stipe

  Teenage, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality

  "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

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• My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

  Cara Delevingne

  Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Phases

  "Cara Delevingne, Ready to Conquer Hollywood, Immerses Herself in ‘Paper Towns’". Interview with By Logan Hill, www.nytimes.com. July 16, 2015.

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• If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Pornography, Ifs

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• That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, War, Women

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• I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.

  Sally Miller Gearhart

  Hands, Identity, Able

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• I think that I'm allowing girls to be really free with their sexuality.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Thinking, Allowing

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.

  Augustus Napier

  Sex, Kissing, Rooms

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• This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

  Connor Franta

  Who I Am, Littles, Just One

  "YouTube Star Connor Franta Comes Out As Gay" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.

  Marielle Heller

  Ideas, People, Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Sex, Thinking

  Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Children, Heart, Hands

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• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

  Steven Tyler

  Attitude, Rap, Rocks

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• We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

  Jay Michaelson

  Teaching, Gay, Jewish Tradition

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Humanity, Intellectual

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

  Eva Longoria

  Healthy, Important, Normal

  "All About Eva". Interview with Jennifer Graham, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 25, 2005.

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