Sexuality Quotes - Page 32

• being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

  Iris Murdoch

  Character, Men, Doe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.22, Penguin

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Two, Interesting

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• It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

  Margaret Fuller

  Angel, Men, May

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm creepy. There are times when I feel downright romantic.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sex, Hate, Thinking

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• I'm a heterosexual. I don't know why I'm like this. I was just born this way.

  Roseanne Barr

  Way, Born, Knows

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• Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Love Is, Paradigm, Attraction

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

  Susan Sontag

  People, May, Energy

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• [On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

  Anita Bryant

  Homosexuality, Live And Let Live

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• I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

  Anita Bryant

  Hate, Sin, Homosexual

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• Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims he could never talk anyone into the cilantro garnish. Obviously, gays were not allowed to design the outfits, because we never would have stayed with the earth tones for so long.

  Kate Clinton

  Military, Gay, Men

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.51, Bywater Books

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• [On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

  Kate Clinton

  Dad, Moving, Vehicle

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• Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Law, Needs

  Annie Besant (1878). “The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals”

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• I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

  Jan Morris

  Spiritual, Believe, Gender

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• If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.

  Terrence Howard

  Long, Lasts, Built

  "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

  Mel Gibson

  Race, Way, Gender

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

  Ryan Gosling

  Love Is, Parent, Tolerance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

  Jill Johnston

  Compromise, Cop, Fearful

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• Sexuality is a sacrament.

  Starhawk

  Sex, Sacraments

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• Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.

  Susan McClary

  Sex, Order, Social

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• Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.

  John Henry Holland

  Inspiration, Discipline, Working Together

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Sex, Passion, Facts

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Secret, Lavender

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

  Judy Grahn

  Gay, Culture, Gay Culture

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

  Judy Grahn

  Dog, Wall, Mirrors

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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