Sexuality Quotes - Page 40

• What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Sleep, Bisexual, Men

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

  Lady Gaga

  Poison, Half, Lines

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• Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.

  Merlin Stone

  Acceptance, Calling, Might

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.250, Doubleday

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• What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Men, Passing Away

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.93, Profile Books

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• The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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• The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

  Jessica Valenti

  Home, Men, Helping

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.108, Seal Press

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• Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Grateful, Self, Survival

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Vices, Heterosexuality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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• I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

  Michael Gambon

  Eye, Gay, Giving

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• The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

  Christine Gregoire

  Government, Discrimination, Should

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• Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

  William Shatner

  Sleep, Homosexuality, Figures

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• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Coal Miners, Perfect

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• Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

  Rachel Maddow

  Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stds

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• My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

  Andrew Marvell

  Vegetables, Empires, Should

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)

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• I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

  John McCain

  Tanks, Bills, Economy

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• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Comeback, Insult, Misfortunes

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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• I thought that I was in heaven
  But I was sure surprised
  Heaven help me, I didn't see
  The devil in your eyes
  You look like an angel
  Walk like an angel
  Talk like an angel
  But I got wise
  You're the devil in disguise
  Oh yes you are
  The devil in disguise

  Elvis Presley

  Wise, Eye, Angel

  Song: (You're The) Devil In Disguise, Album: ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits

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• Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Divorce, Adequate, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.146, Routledge

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• Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

  Wanda Sykes

  Gay, Parent, Black

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• Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

  Robert Wright

  Men, Offering, Giving

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.183, Vintage

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• Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Pregnancy, Character

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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