Sexuality Quotes - Page 7

• When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

  Jessie J

  Should, Define You, Who You Are

  "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Sexy, Thinking, Actresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.

  Santigold

  Girl, Stars, Crazy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem." That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Awards

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sex, Voice, Rocks

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Voice, Silence, World

  "INTERVIEW: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy, She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Facts, Way

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.

  Matt Reeves

  Girl, Growing Up, Being Single

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  "Speak' author: 'We as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2014.

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• Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Men, Perspective, Males

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

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• For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Witty, Buddhist, Smart

  Aperture Magazine, 1999.

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• First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture - this will probably get me in trouble - or a beautiful car. I believe everyone's on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn't overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Believe, Car

  Interview With John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Understanding, Body

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• In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Issues, Minutes, Eleven

  Interview with Dhrub Painuly, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

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• The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

  Emilio Pucci

  Spiritual, Sex, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Strong, Sex, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dream, Sweet, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Mean, Care, Medical

  "A Culture of Liberty" by Jacob M. Appel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Art, Race, People

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• I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

  Alexander McQueen

  Baby, Men, Two

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• I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Body, Faces, Sometimes

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• You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Heart, People, Mind

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• When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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