Sexuality Quotes - Page 36

• Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Age, Skins, Comfort

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.

  Dacia Maraini

  Girl, Country, Rights

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

  Laura Mulvey

  Media, Perspective, Generations

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.

  Laura Mulvey

  Real, Air, Hands

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

  Ariana Grande

  Hate, People, Judgment

  "Ariana Grande isn't writing a 'Bulls - T' breakup Anthem about Big Sean" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

  Ariana Grande

  Hurt, Brother, Gay

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• How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

  Ariana Grande

  Judging, Ass, Get Up

  "Ariana Grande isn't writing a 'Bulls - T' breakup Anthem about Big Sean" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 23, 2015.

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• If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Attitude, Albums, Littles

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Boys are rarely told that their virginity is a gift, or indeed that their sexuality is about “giving” something to another person – lightly or not. Boys “get laid”, “get lucky”, “get some”. They “take a girl’s virginity”, “take advantage”; if they’re thoughtful, they “take their time”. Boys are not taught to think of themselves or their virginity as something to be offered up, unwrapped and enjoyed.

  Emily Maguire

  Girl, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

  Neil Tennant

  Variety Of Music, Choices, Feels

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

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• To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

  Neil Tennant

  Should Have, Issues, Individuality

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

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• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

  Neil Tennant

  Hate, Real, Moving

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

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• My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

  Paul Goodman

  Sex, Self, Views

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• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, Roots

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

  Ben Barnes

  Attitude, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Stuff, Interviews

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.

  Julianne Hough

  Girl, Religious, Teenage

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• Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

  Halle Berry

  Smart, Empowering, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.

  Halle Berry

  Taken, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human condition, who we are, what we want, how we communicate to one another and this is also an exploration of a long-term relationship and what happens in it. There's human sexuality and all those kinds of things, so that helps - it all helps. You realise that I'm not a Playboy bunny.

  Julianne Moore

  Long, Atoms, Bunnies

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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