Sexuality Quotes - Page 27

• So many people are close-minded. They aren't open with themselves. I want to be that punch in the face that says, "Who cares!" The more people try to hide sexuality, the more it's going to be brought up.

  Jeffree Star

  People, Trying, Who Cares

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

  Maya Angelou

  Appreciation, Children, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

  Deborah Kampmeier

  Pain, Reality, Abuse

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

  Deborah Kampmeier

  Thinking, Performing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

  Lars von Trier

  Thinking, Dangerous, Threat

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Today, Violence, Exhilarating

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.

  Lorna Simpson

  Teenager, Reading, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• if I could tell my very-younger self something, I would tell him to let loose more often. I think it all roots in sexuality, but because of that, I became so worried about everything — worried about what people thought. I was afraid to be creative and charismatic and eccentric. Just to do things to do things, like dancing. I was afraid of looking too flamboyant or something. I would tell myself to stop being so stressed about what other people are thinking. Stop being so afraid that something may not come off the right way.

  Connor Franta

  Thinking, People, Dancing

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Confused, Trying, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids.

  Jessica Valenti

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way that is attractive and approachable to this age group. I can teach my daughter about not talking to strangers but I can't teach her about how to succeed in a sexist world or even how to exist as a body in a sexist world. I want to begin by asking girls what they want and why they want it? Interrogating that. If this is the sex life you want, what makes you think you want that? I imagine the only way to authentically get at sexuality is by asking those questions.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Daughter, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

  Claire Dederer

  Book, People, Culture

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

  Claire Dederer

  Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.

  Francis Levy

  Imagination, Mind, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

  Francis Levy

  Men, Thinking, Imperfection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.

  Alice Bag

  Beautiful, Girl, Punk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.

  Brett Leonard

  Strong, Reality, Brain

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• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Memorable, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

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• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, President, Hiv

  "Liz’s Aids Odyssey". Interview With Nancy Collins, www.vanityfair.com. November 1992.

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• My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

  Suzanne Vega

  Mother, Sex, Use

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• Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Age, Middle

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• Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Writing, Giving

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

  Euripides

  Revenge, Hate, Love Is

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.169, Oxford University Press

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• A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Sleep, Giving

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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