Sexuality Quotes - Page 29

• Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

  Kate Millett

  Important, Would Be, Given

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• Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

  Carmen Electra

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Design, Church

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• This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

  Ian Thorpe

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

  "Ian Thorpe comes out as gay in Parkinson interview" by Nadia Khomami, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Color, Style

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Book, Mean, Journey

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• Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Fun, Joy

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.43, Seal Press

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• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Sacred, Matter

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• I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

  Al Goldstein

  Writing, Men, Prisoner

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• A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Art, Opportunity, Stronger

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• Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Gay, Substance, Disease

  Rod Parsley (2005). “Silent No More”, p.74, Charisma Media

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• I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Journey, Tennis

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• Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

  Bill Condon

  Unique, Ideas, Study

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• I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

  George Michael

  Growing Up, Years, Growing

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• I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

  Barbet Schroeder

  Homosexuality, Form, Treats

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• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

  Lionel Blue

  Gay, Nervous, Breakdown

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• If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

  George Weinberg

  Sex, Engagement, Confession

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• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

  Leon Kass

  Mean, Men, Mortality

  Amy A. Kass, Leon Kass (2000). “Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

  Christie Hefner

  Generations, Magazines, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Income, Source

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• I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

  Cathy Freeman

  Hair, Problem, Mood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

  Mia Kirshner

  Thinking, Coming Out, Existence

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• You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

  Brett Hull

  Guy, Care, Want

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• They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

  Philip Kaufman

  Children, Thinking, Lax

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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