Sexuality Quotes - Page 33

• The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

  Nicole Brossard

  Reality, Threatening

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

  Nicole Brossard

  Humanity, Poet

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

  Nicole Brossard

  Giving, Energy, Breaths

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Support, Environment, Nurture

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• I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

  Dionne Brand

  Romance, Firsts, First Time

  Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Different, Boards

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Mean, Issues, People

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Childhood, Important

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• I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Character, Kissing, Doors

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Bisexual, Parent, Today

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• Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Sex, Attitude, Patterns

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• Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

  Maisie Williams

  Girl, Sex, Should

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• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.

  T. R. Knight

  Gay, Interesting, Rumor

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• One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.

  Yvonne Zipter

  Typical, Firsts

  Yvonne Zipter (1988). “Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime”

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• When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ. Christ is the bridegroom. In these symbolic actions, rather than in physical actions, where a male reaches sexuality or participates in intimate exchanges, if one uses a different term - there's often a heterosexual figuring that takes place. The male poet invokes a beautiful female muse. The virginal nun consecrated invokes the male bridegroom, Christ.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Beautiful, Males, Female

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

  Hugh Hefner

  Makeup, High Heels, Civilization

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.

  Gwen Stefani

  Waiting, Over You, Confusing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

  Ruth Wilson

  Scary, Males, Female

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Sensual, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."

  Jim Goad

  Sex, Believe, Empowering

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.

  Judith Butler

  Gay, Thinking, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

  Judith Butler

  Confused, Usual, May

  Source: ilga.org

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• The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

  Judith Butler

  Cities, Trying, United States

  Source: ilga.org

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