Sexuality Quotes - Page 34

• You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Choices, Age

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Desire, Objects Of Desire, Objects

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus". www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

  Pete Townshend

  Gay, Men, Rivers

  Pete Townshend (2012). “Pete Townshend: Who I Am”, HarperCollins UK

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• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

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• I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

  George Michael

  Gay, Care, Might

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• Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Soul, Aberration

  The History of Sexuality vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1976) (translation by Robert Hurley)

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found...I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Intelligent, Thinking, Found

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• I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Gay, Thinking, White

  "Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson". Book by Keith Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Pardon, Pun

  "Christine O’Donnell, Delaware Tea Partier, Criticized Masturbation On MTV’s ‘Sex In The 90s’ Show" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

  Margot Adler

  Gay, Bisexual, Cities

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• The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.

  Billy Connolly

  Sex, Men, Race

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• We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

  Hugh Laurie

  Girl, Fashion, Years

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• The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Opposites, Culture

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.660, Indiana University Press

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• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Wine, Cities

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

  Chris Bliss

  God, Race, Soul

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• You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.

  Leonard A Cole

  Company You Keep, Responsible, Judged

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• If you've got it, flaunt it.

  Leonard A Cole

  Homosexuality, Ifs

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• As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Religious, Pregnancy

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• Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Feminist, Childhood, Identity

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• Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover.

  Vatsyayana

  Love, Heart, Loving Someone

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• The feeling of being alive and at One with everything is available through the path of Tantra. When your heart is open and you are making love, there is no separation between you, your partner and God. This is healing sex. This is connecting with the Divine. And the important thing to develop is the sense that this sacred experience is available in all instants. It is not limited to sex.

  Philip Smith

  Sex, Healing, Heart

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• We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.

  Jennifer Morse

  Love, Believe, Reality

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• Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

  John Stoltenberg

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.92, Routledge

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• Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Self, Inheritance, Social

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