Sexuality Quotes - Page 39

• We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.

  Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Men, Names, People

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract that, to show gay men being happy and positive about who they were. Oh, I didn't sit down to think this all out carefully. But I knew - right from the start - that my men were going to be proud and happy men!

  Tom of Finland

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  Barbara Kruger

  Morning, Sunday, Race

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• Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

  Jasmine Guy

  Strong, People, Information

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• I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

  Anna Faris

  Good Love, Lovers, Nervous

  "Faris names her number". pagesix.com. September 29, 2011.

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• As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

  Ben Whishaw

  Eye, Rights, Understanding

  "Ben Whishaw: Mysterious Skin". Interview with Gareth Mclean, www.out.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

  Richard Serra

  Guy, Disease, Term

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• I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Views

  "Madonna: The Director's Cut". Interview with Naomi Wolf, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can't embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ages. And that persecution still goes on today all over the world.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Atheist, Fun, Joy

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• French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, Moving, People

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• I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

  Anne Heche

  Choices, Lines, My Truth

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• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

  Steven Tyler

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.

  Helen Mirren

  Sexy, Art, Mind

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• If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

  Ricky Martin

  Player, Piano, Would Be

  "Ricky Martin: 'I hated it when people tried to force me to come out'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2011.

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• I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

  Eva Mendes

  Want, Known

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• I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

  Eva Mendes

  Believe, Book, Comfortable

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• It's an under-represented demographic and it's a really loyal fan base and it's really nice to play those roles without making a big deal about it or making too much comment, because the more we normalise it the better. You're not defined by your sexuality but by what you do.

  Jaime Murray

  Nice, Play, Fans

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• Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Way, Enlightened

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  Zadie Smith

  Women, Knowing, Awkward

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.20, Vintage

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• We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

  Naomi Wolf

  Girl, Unique, Boys

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

  Erica Jong

  Art, People, Doe

  "Free-Associating with Erica Jong". Interview with Robin Epstain. Lilith magazine, www.lilith.org. Fall 1995.

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• All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

  J. G. Ballard

  Past, Egypt, Museums

  "The Atrocity Exhibition". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1970.

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